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Chapter 1: Hitta in Space.
Hitta woke up and wiped the crust from his eyes. He looked around the room, and was surprised to find out he was in some sort of... spaceship? No, that wasn't a question. He definitely was in a spaceship, because when he looked out the window to his right he saw nothing but space and stars. This had to be a dream. He pinched himself. Nothing. He looked around and jolted a bit when he discovered a man wielding a strange device. But it didn't seem like a weapon, really, more like some sort of scanner? Now that was a question. And Hitta started to have many.
"Where am I. Am I dreaming?"
The young man walked closer to Hitta and hovered the device over him. It blipped and bleeped and transmitted a small recording sound. So it was a scanner, but judging by his silent demeanor he wasn't about to tell Hitta what he was looking for...or what he had already found. Slight fears of being anally probed by aliens crept into the chubby's man heart. Finally, after what felt like an hour, the man broke out of his introversion and said: "The question isn't whether or not you are dreaming. For everything dreams, and everything is a dream. The question remains, who is the dreamer that began the dream."
"God of course" Hitta replied. "The God of Oneness, that is the only thing not a dream."
The man, who was actually a version of strrrng aka Nick, slapped hitta on his face. "Yet even that is a dream as God dreamnt himself up to exist. Euphoria is a dream... the pleasure settles, the dust creates. Maybe that's why we're all here."
"Maybe... it's always the question that drives us, hmm" Hitta said. He realized the man was somebody he already knew from an internet message board but that didn't really surprise him. "And perhaps some people awaken" Hitta said. He searched inside his starry head for a connection, but nothing felt solid and real yet.
"Awaken to what?" Nick laughed. "Another dream?"
"Some dreams are more.... awake than others" Hitta said. To tell you the truth, the Louisiana native couldn't tell you the last time he felt truly alive. "Well I always did want a life of adventure and excitement. I knew my small white trash town couldn't contain the grandiosity that is me."
Nick smiled, and dismantled his minor sociopathic personality to become minor empathetic, as well. "We know that as well. That's partly the reason why my crew beamed you here.... from the future. In your time it's march 6 2012. In here, it's june 14th 3056."
This was all very interesting. Hitta blinked at something. "Wait a minute...your crew? You run this ship?" Hitta asked. He knew the young man before him could be biting, but he didn't think of him as exactly the captain-type.
"That's what we're still fighting about" Nick said. "Power. Who has it... who gets to be captain. There's supposed to be some conference about it soon." Nick looked at the device for a few seconds, and then directed his gaze back to hitta. "Surely it should be me."
Hitta chuckled joyfully to himself. "Well of course, you would think that."
Nick raised a brow. "Your depersonalization disorder and incredible insight of others clearly makes you more suited as the ship's counselor, ala Deanna Troi. Not to mention your above average empathy levels. That you naturally mask because you are a man. The only person who does not mask their empathy... (::cough under breath:: annoyingly so) is the ship's token fag... I'm sure you know who that is."
Hitta didn't want to be captain. Well he did, because... everybody is attracted to power. But he didn't like people's misconceptions about everything, which he felt gave birth to things like 'socionics' and 'types' in the first place. "You know I question the notion of the captain/counselor dichotomy. I don't see why I can't be both, be equally good at both roles... be like the supportive therapist that probes in the minds and hearts of others and also the person that victoriously leads us through many manly and heroic battles."
Nick sighed, pressed a few buttons on his thingamajig, turned around, and ignored hitta for now. This was going to be an interesting voyage.
~End of Chapter 1~
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Chapter 2: Leaderless
All 16types people were in a large meeting, sitting around a huge table arguing over who would be captain over their new ship. It was an interesting story how they got it in the first place, one that will have to be told later.
Everybody was wearing Star Trek-esque cloth uniforms. Without the faggy symbols on their chests. There was a special neuro-communicator system integrated in the Ship's motherboard that enabled them to contact anybody on the ship whenever they wanted to, just by thinking about them. It was like a form of technical telepathy that everybody had access to, but there still had to be some sort of mutual connection between members in order to work. In other words, it could not be used to read somebody's mind without their consent.
"Maybe we just need to vote on it?" Jenna shyly suggested while tucking a strand of hair between her ears. She was sitting by her lover and mate, Discojoe.
"No" Ashton grunted. A now beefy, muscular man that once had the body of a runner.... looked to be more of a Warrior-type. He was sitting next to his best friend FDG, who was very similar to him. "Democracy is for fags. Weaklings, pussies. Why bring that particular brand of politics into this?"
"Then, what, are you suggesting?" Hkkmr said. He was a very diplomatic Asian who was now an Android/Robot. (He was very well-made though and you could hardly tell) Actually, in the war of 2750 - all asian people became androids, in order to live forever and be immortal, and continue to produce highly entertaining roleplaying games from a safe distance. "Some sort of battle or test to see who gets to be Captain?"
"I never said that" Ashton said, looking slightly self-satisfied. "It's just, every society, every group of people make up ranks. It's only natural. We can't just become a cess pool of love and togetherness. I am NOT a heartless person, contrary to what some people think (shoots looks around the room). But if this ship becomes Socialist, I will personally jump out and commit suicide myself!"
"It's like sometimes you confuse Socialism with Communism" Crazedrat said, the bitchy IEI wanting to start an argument.
"I agree it's more interesting to have Competition over Cooperation" Nanashi said, because she was a gamma. "But how would such a test be ... testable? We all have such highly specialized and different abilities" Nanashi said. "Such incredibly different methods of intelligence!"
"No wonder we're arguing" Slacker Mom quipped.
Ashton rubbed his temples. Nanashi was right. They could just all have a physical challenge, but this ship could obviously not be run by brute strength alone. Ashton was slightly more physically stronger than the others, but that had dampened through evolution. Most of everybody's 'super' abilities were quite subtle, as science and technology won out in the end over mysticism and spirituality. Gadgets over Gurus. A fact that conservative christian Director Abbie wasn't pleased with. So in most meetings like these, she just sulked in the corner and knitted. She was glad to be here with the group, but she wanted them to make a decision already.
"We barely agree on anything and we like to argue about everything" Gilly said. He was sitting next to Nick. "Are you sure we're meant to run a ship together. I disagree with Ashton (as usual)... running a starship takes a lot more cooperation than competition. Obviously, it takes both. But do we really want to live in an environment where we consistently desire to rip each other's throats out?"
"Yes" Ashton said in his usual blunt and trolling way. "Much more fun that way."
"What else can we do?" Sam finally spoke up after being quiet like he usually is in large groups such as these. Ever the introvert. And of course, he was sitting next to Dolphin, who was also being a quiet listener. "I m-mean... where else can we go? Earth is destroyed. Everything in the Milky Way got obliterated twenty years ago, doesn't everybody remember? The main pure reason, (Everybody seems to forget the main pure point sometimes besides the loveable gay shaman), the main pure reason why we're traveling through space is we need to find another planet worthy enough to call 'Home!'"
Hitta's jaw dropped as he listened to everybody give him new bits of information at speeds his 2012-year-old conscienceness wasn't used to. "There's no more earth anymore?" Hitta said.
Sam sighed. "No.. I'm afraid there is not. It got blown up. By an evil alien race known as the Rikti. They tend to just... blow up... what they can't make into slaves. We humans resisted being slaves, would rather die than have somebody tell us what to do."
"That's Americans for you!" Krae said from his European vantage point.
"That's why the Prime Mission is to defeat the Rikti first and *then* find a home" Sam said. "Along with anything else standing in our way. Or we die here together, in this starship. Look at us, bickering about what doesn't really matter- when we should all just be getting along together and be fags!"
"I understand the sentimental point of your speech Samerang" Gulanzon said, "But it DOES matter. We need to organize our unique personas in a tightly controlled power structure or we will just spin around in circles, with no real direction. It's like..." Gulanzon thought for a moment on how to convey the message to Sam in a way that he would hear. Gulanzon raised his hand in a dramatic way, index finger pointing upward. "It's like a straight man is mean and brutal and you don't like how he hurts your feelings, right? But he does something your friends can't ever do. He forges a path. A straight narrow path, that will make us safe if we stay on its course. And take us home." Gulanzon paused for emotional effect, and then finished with: "I have a big heart too. I don't like anybody being above or below anybody else. But the alternative is both literally and metaphorically - flying around in circles!"
Cpig blinked. "Thank you Gulanzon, that was uh, equally amusing, and frightening... all at once...."
Sam almost literally crashed his head through the glass black table out of frustration. "So then... how do we do this? How do we decide who gets to be captain of this Starship?" He then suddenly got out his phaser/laser gun and shot Gulanzon in the chest with it. (Stun-setting only, of course) "... And that's what you get for insinuating that a gay male could never be captain of a spaceship!"
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"science and technology won out in the end over mysticism and spirituality. Gadgets over Gurus. A fact that conservative christian Director Abbie wasn't pleased with."
I am offended! I think mysticism and spirituality are stupid wasted of time and meant for white triangles and Adolf Hitler and bald guys who sit on mountains.
Yeah but we need you to play that role to provide interesting conflict. *grin*
Why do I only have 1 line? Why am I not given a cool description? Why do I not stomp Gulanzon's latently homo guts out for even being in the same room as me?
Chapter 3: Competition for Captain
There was a silence in the air for awhile. Uncomfortable looks all around. A thought seemed to strike everybody from the same place all at once, and it was up to hitta to deliver the bad news.
"Fight... we're going to have to fight." It's times like these Hitta wanted a cigar. "Y'all don't have any cigars on this ship do you?" Hitta said. He wanted to go to the side wall and say 'Computer, cigar please' and have one be materialized, but he wasn't quite sure just how much of a Star Trek rip-off this place was. Besides, he was too busy staring at April's chest to move out of his comfortable chair.
"That brings us back to my original question" Nanashi said. She was wearing these stylish white semi-puffy shoulderpad things that looked great on her frame. She also had this minor irritation in her voice whenever she wanted people to take her seriously. "How do we test for it?"
"We just do" FDG said in his usual cocky, Italian straight man way. He was wearing a Star Trek-ish suit with a dark yellow stripe across his chest whereas Ashton was wearing a red one. "It wouldn't be 100% fair but life isn't fair. We set up a tournament, a competition. Some would have more of an edge than others, but whoever wants to compete, will be able to compete."
"Can't we just have some sort of intellectual test instead?" Aerorobyn said.
Dolphin shook her head. "No. I mean we're all smart, right? That's how... that's why the ship has been practically running itself ever since we got it, two weeks ago" she said. "The computers handle the raw intellectual stuff for us anyway." She realized the ship also needed a cool name, but that was for another meeting.
Tcaud's eyes blinked. "I think your ti-polr is showing missy!" he said in his usual neurotic, passive-aggressive way. "We've just been lucky I'm afraid. When things get chaotic from the Rikti we'll need a smart Ti-ego person to help us get back online."
"Great, you can be like an engineer?" Confimed/Golden said. "But this test is for captain. I guess the people who don't want to be captain, don't have to participate" she said. "Oh believe me, I am going to compete for this role. I'm too much of a BITCH not to." She smiled at everybody with a knowing wink.
"He's still gonna have to compete with other engineers for the chief engineering position" Ashton said. "There's like what, more than 150 crew members on board? I'm sure we'll have a team of at least six engineers."
HaveLucidDreams yawned. He was tapping his pencil on the table, and for some reason he was just plain bored. "I kinda think the cute little icon in the beginning of the story is more interesting than the actual content. Know what I'm sayin'?" He waved his hands in a Jerry Seinfeld way. "16types adventures... in SPAAAACE!" he made straight man space noises with his tongue.
"Stop narcissistically breaking the 4th wall!" Gilly shouted out. "People want to believe in the DREAM man, and they can't do that if we always troll them!"
"The actual show doesn't have the trolling but the actors do some trolling thing that makes fun of the fans after it's done like when William Shatner made fun of nerdy Star Trek boys that can't get laid on SNL" Lucid Dreams said. He then proceeded to get out his laptop and link everybody to funny video clips that always break the 4th wall. That is until Gilly used his fire powers and blew up Lucid's laptop.
Sean, the gay male ESTp and primary love interest for Sam, growled. "Oh trust me, I am *so* going to have sex on this ship." He moved closer to Sam.
"Sean! With so many people in the room I didn't even realize that you were here." He got gay hearts in his eyes.
"Can we please get back to the topic on hand?" Director Abbie growled. "You all know how I feel about rampant displays of sexuality."
"Right!" Sam said. "So like what, we fight each other for the role as Captain? Have a battle royale in one of the Holodecks?"
"To the death" Ashton said in a very serious deadpan way. Everybody in the room started to get hella uncomfortable.
"I'M KIDDING!" Ashton said. "Again not a heartless douchebag. I'm not going to kill anybody but there's nothing wrong with a little competition! Don't be afraid just because you know I'll probably win!"
Crazedrat, Gilly, Nick and Krаe all looked at each other from almost opposite ends of the huge conference room. Oh God, they wanted to kick Ashton's ass so fucking bad.
"All other positions can be a more mental competition" Dolphin said. "Well the role of Captain is both mental and physical, they are like the uh you know, protagonist in the RPG that's great at a little bit of everything."
"Right like mario in Super Mario RPG: legend of the seven stars" Sam said. "Or Cloud in Final Fantasy VII or..."
"Stop with the dorky pop-culture references" K0prsey said. "We get the point."
"I can handle creating and categorizing all the boring written mental tests for us non-captainy types" Uniden spoke up to everybody. He was nervous and shaking. "That's it if its okay with everybody else. I mean uh... you know, I'm so shy and innocent. Therefore, fighting isn't for me."
"Hey, I'm shy and innocent too but I'm still gonna give it a shot...." Sam said. "But that's okay you don't have to fight if you don't want to."
"Okay so it's settled then" Allie said. "I can make pretty flyers for the competition, letting everybody on the ship know in case they want to participate. I know I can just speak to everybody using our fancy pants technology but... I'm an artist. I like making flyers." She looked around the room and narcissistically batted her eyelashes.
"I'll help" Starfall said. Glamoura and Scarlettluv all nodded their heads in agreement.
Gulanzon was busy on his laptop, hurriedly typing everything that was going on in this meeting. "Okay boss, I wrote the minutes for this week's meeting!" he said to Sam in a very likeable way. The cute nerd pushed up his glasses. "Secretary Gulanzon at your service."
Sam tousled Gulanzon's hair in a playfully affectionate way. "Thattaboy!" he said. He loved this kid.
"We need a date for the competition" Cpig said. He was wearing a suit that was a nice silver color that looked good with his complexion. "Let's say... a week from today?" ((OOC: sorry cpig that's the best I could do I'll try to get your character down better later, bro =p))
"Week and a half" Slacker Mom suggested. "Give people extra time to prepare?" How motherly of her.
"Okay week and a half it is." Gulanzon typed on the computer.
Won't make a bit of difference Ashton thought to himself.
He was going to win.
Wasn't he?
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hahaha, that's better
I loved havelucidreams's part and "Sam tousled Gulanzon's hair in a playfully affectionate way. "Thattaboy!" he said. He loved this kid."
made me lollllll
Now conscripting, for more information come here: http://www.the16types.info/vbulletin...48#post1003048
Pfft, I only get one small line, I see how it is.
Chapter 4: Practice Makes Perfect
Sam was in his private quarters, sitting on the carpet Indian style. He was wearing mint robes that looked good on him. He concentrated and lifted his entire body about eleven inches from the ground. The doors of his quarters beeped, which indicated somebody was on the other side wanting to visit him.
"Come in" he said, not letting the distraction break his levitation. Such a minor irritation could not get under his skin if he was to win this competition.
Dolphin smiled at the faggot levitating in his quarters. She was wearing robes of her own, blue robes natch. "Pretty impressive, most people with the power of levitation can only levitate a few inches. But why do it at all, when you can just..." she got out her phaser gun from her side belt and shocked truck in the butt with it. He fell down on the floor with a thud.
Sam stood up and looked down at his friend, who was many inches shorter than him. "If this competition turns into something purely physical, with only our lasers as weapons, then surely Ashton will win" he said.
"Well I never said you shouldn't use your levitation, it's just I don't understand why. Those powers are considered outdated as they are ancient." Dolphin said. "I can still throw fireballs and water bolts but this..." she held up her weapon. "Is three times faster."
Sam scratched his chin. "I guess me studying my 'old powers' are more for spiritual relief then something practical. Something to help emotionally prepare for a battle what will most likely just become me learning the art of effective 'dodge-twirling.'" The infamous 'dodge-twirl' was something taught to all crew members on how to dodge a laser beam.
Dolphin sighed. "Yeah...." After a bit of shared quietness between them, she blurted out, "Oh! I remember the reason I came to see you. I just...." She sighed again. "I just want you to know that, if I win this, there will be no hard feelings right? You won't be butthurt taking orders from somebody more than a foot shorter than you?"
Sam smiled. "You mean if *I* win...."
Dolphin playfully smacked her friend on his faggy chest. "You know what I mean..."
Sam moved closer to Dolphin and hugged her. "Of course I'll be okay if you win. Competition isn't the same thing as cruelty, and if there are adventurers that think otherwise- we'll deal with them when the problem arises."
Dolphin sunk her head deeper in truck's chest and purred. "Okay, I just don't want to feel too guilty for being hard on you."
"Hit me with your best. I expect nothing less" Sam said.
Dolphin smiled and began to turn around to leave. "It's getting late. I need to do some practice of my own and head to bed."
Sam nodded. As soon as Dolphin got in the doorway, Sam shouted "Dolphin! Hit me with your laser again.... quick as fast you can!"
Dolphin did as she was instructed, pivoting on one foot and spinning around quickly to give Sam a quick red beam out of her gun.
Sam held out his hand and the beam traveled upward towards the ceiling.
Sam smiled at Dolphin, who looked pretty impressed. "I've learned to channel my levitation outward, to behave as a sort of telekinesis. I realized what I was doing wrong, focusing too much inside myself like an introvert, but I could purge my powers outward... making my levitation that much better."
Dolphin kept staring at the laser beam that was halfway to Sam, halfway bent up towards the ceiling. "Time will tell if it's more useful than just twirling the fuck out of a way like a normal str8 man melee class" she said.
Dolphin left the room, Sam stepped out of the way, and the beam continued its original path of trajectory, breaking one of his lamps.
"Oh well, those are easy enough to replicate" Sam said.
NEXT CHAPTER: Gilly and Nick practicing together. SHIRTLESS. (mmm)
Chapter 5: Practice makes Perfect, part the 2nd
The Holodeck Gilly and Nick were practicing in was playing 'WE WILL ROCK YOU' while a huge showdown was going down. The room had nothing in it but the boys and a very large blue mat. Both boys were shirtless and wearing dark blue athletic pants.
Gilly felt his curly hair being pulled and his entire body being carried in a 360-degree direction. He felt something hard and blunt hit the side of his face and a few of his teeth fell out. So that's what being smacked against a wall feels like...
Gilly tossed out his hands and threw down a Magic Anvil in a hopefully not-random direction when he regained control of himself. However, Nick dodged said anvil by forward somersaulting out of the way and prepared to gut Gilly with two daggers. Gilly yelled out and summoned his Juggle Shield to protect him and Nick ended up slicing two plastic balls instead.
"Damn Jesters" Nick grunted. It was enough of a distraction for Gilly to grab Nick in a chokehold and trip him, sending both boys crashing down on the mat. Gilly punched Nick in the face as hard as he could.
Gilly punched again, then realized he was hitting nothing but mat. Nick had used his Rogue's Stealth power to turn invisible. Gilly recover flipped back up on two feet, and shot out fireballs in every direction he could think of to bring Nick back into the battle.
Gilly cried out in pain as he suddenly felt Nick's daggers pierce through the back of his skin out through his chest. Before Gilly could die though, Nick took out a small medical device and began stitching up his wounds. A small green laser beam patched up the huge wound. Space technology could be so nifty.
"Man that was... intense" Gilly said. The men's chests glistened with homoerotic sweat.
"Looks like I win that time" Nick said.
"I wonder who will win this thing" Gilly said. "Computer, bottled water" A bottle of water materialized in the young man's hands. He lifted it up and squirted half of it at once down his throat. "All I know is that I will NOT let Ashton be the victor. Cause Jesus Christ GAWD NO" He waved his hands around like a Drag Queen.
"We can prevent Ashton from being a nuisance ...." Nick said in a low whisper. He crept inside his side pocket and handed Gilly a phaser gun.
"All other guns will be rewired in the safety protocol, to prevent people from using the Kill Setting. Except for this one. I programmed it to bypass the safety protocols. You'll just need one good shot. Be careful of his annoying Super Speed power."
Gilly blinked. "Nick dude, you sure are DARK sometimes. I love it man, but see..." Gilly sighed and pushed the gun out of the way. "I don't want to kill Ashton. I want to hurt him. I want to defeat him. I want to see him cry like a faggot and then lick his tears and then spit it back out on his FACE."
Gilly finished the rest of his water. "Besides, an action like that... will make pariahs out of us."
"We can make it look like an accident" Nick said with a smile.
"There will undoubtedly be an investigation..." Gilly said. "Last thing we want is hkkmr in a cop uniform putting nightsticks up our asses while we in the brig, dawg. No, just no."
"Only the dumb sociopaths get caught" Nick retorted.
Gilly slapped Nick in the face. "No. I want to beat him the fair way. Got it?"
"Oh alright!" Nick said. "I suppose it is quite weak of us to act so concerned that he will win anyway." He put his arms behind his back and held his hands together.
"It's only what everybody else on the ship is thinking as well" Gilly said. "Come on, you honestly don't think Uniden or Sammy will win do you?"
Nick shrugged. "I don't know. Sam can be kind of powerful, surprisingly so... and Uniden isn't even participating."
Gilly took out some darts and threw it at Ashton's face. He had a picture of Ashton's face taped on the wall. "Whatever. I just know who I wanna beat."
Nick smiled. "But what if you DO win. Do you really wanna be captain of a spaceship? Knowing you man you'd like the glory of it for a few days and then you'll get bored." Gilly was such a loveable narcissist.
"Then I can pass on my title to Sam or Dolphin or somebody I actually like and is deserving of it" Gilly said. "Now come on, we need to shower and do some LSD together and then have hot anal sex."
Nick blinked at that last part. Was Gilly joking? We'll leave it for the audience to decide.
lol... lord.
At its core, 16types adventures is probably about the war between Empathy and Narcissism. (good vs. evil) Also it has a strong friendship theme, working together theme, big hearted theme, and how people can grow and evolve through adversity and conflict. There's also a 'who am I?' theme and an individual's eternal search for their own identity.
Chapter 6: It makes narcissistic sense for the 6th chapter to be an Ashton chapter. I don't know why it just does.
Ashton drew out a bad-ass looking broad sword and looked up at the huge beast before him. He was in a holodeck room of his own, practicing his own battle like all the others who wanted to be Captain. Unlike most of the others, Ashton preferred to practice alone. He was wearing his full-plate black Death Knight gear.
It was not many adventurers who could say that they soloed a Clear Dragon and lived to tell about it. Yes, the fabled Clear Dragon. The same beast that killed Isha over a thousand years ago.
As soon as the beast chomped down, Ashton super sped out of the way. He then leaped and tried to penetrate his sword in the creature's back, but it used its Incorporeal Ability and Ashton fell through the dragon. The Clear Dragon re-corporealized himself. Ashton then realized he was... inside him. Inside the Clear Dragon's stomach.
"Computer e-" Ashton stopped himself. No not end program. In real life you can't just say 'End Program' and have everything turn out your way. He would fight his way out. In a fury, Ashton slashed every bit of the dragon's insides.
Eventually after enough internal damage, the dragon puked Ashton back up. His head was beginning to feel woozy as if a part of himself was digested into the dragon, even though he had already escaped. "Computer... what is my health status?" Ashton said.
"Your life force has been irrevocably drained by 4.7%"
"Computer... end program" Ashton said. The Clear Dragon growled and vanished out of the holodeck.
Okay, okay. So soloing a Clear Dragon WAS a bit too much. Even for Ashton. Did he really just die that much, never to get it returned again? What was going on. Perhaps he would go to Sickbay soon.
Ashton walked out of the holodeck and saw Dolphin standing there.
"Hey" Dolphin said.
"Hi" Ashton said. "We must be um using holodecks, near each other..." Ashton said.
"You look so worried" Dolphin said.
"I just died today" Ashton said. Dolphin gave a confused look to him. It was then he realized that they weren't really properly introduced.
"I come from the planet Straightga" (the 2nd t is silent, pronounced stray-guh) Ashton said. "I'm not ... fully human. Half-human, half straightga. My straightga half is what gives me my superior physical strength. Unlike most life forms, If I don't mate eventually, I die. Perish. If I was full straightga I'd already be dead by now, in fact."
Dolphin gave Ashton an empathetic look. "I know a lot of people on the ship don't like you but... they don't like each other much either I don't think. I think it's honestly a really rare thing to be liked by somebody." She looked deeper in his eyes. "Truly liked, ya know?" It was so precious and tender, like a locket from your grandmother.
Ashton smiled. What was it about the female species that made them so adorable? "Yeah. You're right about that. I know I'm selfish, I know I'm unkind. I don't like to... hide that, with fake niceness. You know?"
"I know" Dolphin said. "They call you Asston for a reason..."
"But still, if I don't find somebody to truly love, with the utmost of empathy, then I will eventually kill myself. Like I tried to do just now in the holodeck when I attempted to solo a Clear Dragon with disabled security precautions."
"You WHAT" Dolphin said. "Are you NUTS. Ashton, why do you want to hurt yourself?" she said.
"I don't want to, it's just hard-wired in my straightga genetics" Ashton said. "Something called strong Fi dual seeking. I have to find my romantic partner that is right for me. If I don't, I self-destruct. And it can't just be any girl. It has to be somebody completely compatible with my unique biological structure, which is very hard to find. That's why I'm... that's why I try so hard in space."
Dolphin was taken aback. "No wonder you're so mean sometimes. But maybe if you tell other people.. they'll understand."
Ashton put his head down in a sexy straight man way. "It's not like people will miss me if I'm gone" Ashton said. He bumped Dolphin's arm and walked out of the way. He knew all most people wanted was people to be nice, and so that's what made it so easy to control others and take it away from them. How could he make up for the hurt that he already caused?
"Oh that's so sad. And hot and manly" Dolphin said. Said the first sentence, whispered the second. A rugged, masculine man on a quest for both romance and redemption.
Dolphin wanted to reach out to Ashton. She wanted to let him know that he didn't have to feel like an alien, and they all kinda felt like an alien at times. Maybe they could all be on this ship, learning how to be aliens together. And she wanted to teach others that they needed to forgive him.
They were all selfish and unkind, cruel and unusual, weird beyond redemption. But they all were also capable of great feats of selflessness and all had a strong need to be loved, for exactly who and what they were.
Dolphin looked out a window at the huge universe before her. It really was beautiful.
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lol you make me sound like a Mary Sue.
The fourth wall must be broken


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{Spiritual} Become re-grounded on the getaway. This was probably the goal I was most looking forward to accomplishing and probably the biggest fail. Honestly, it was quite upsetting how little I feel I got out of the mini-retreat. I think my hopes were so high because of the incredible experience I had on the getaway in March, but this one left me feeling empty, confused, and raw instead of fulfilled, satisfied, and loved. I guess the silver lining is that I have some direction with what I need to focus on in myself.
{Financial} Cut my credit card debt in half. Nope. I need to be better about it in December because now I have to push back my pay-off goal to January 31, 2016.
{Social} Enjoy time with my loved ones over Thanksgiving. Mission accomplished. For the second time in my life, I didn't eat with my family on Thanksgiving, but I had a wonderful time with friends and got to spend time with my family that weekend.
{Mental} Find balance between my work life and personal life. I think I did alright at this. I'm getting better at not going straight home to keep working or not working right before I go to sleep. I think one of the biggest contributors to this getting better is that my Monday and Tuesday evenings got freed up, but I only have another month of that freedom.
{Physical} Take more Pure Barre classes than I took in November 2014. I did it. But I only took nine.
{Personal} Give up alcohol and Starbucks. Well, I didn't do terribly. With the exception of maybe five times, I only had Starbucks when someone else was buying or because of a business meeting type thing. And even then, I'd say I probably only had it ten times throughout the month. (That makes me sound like I have such a problem. Yikes.) I did alright with alcohol, but I absolutely could have done better.
{Professional} Find a routine that works for me. Getting better! I still need to have a little more structure with my routine, but I think I'm doing a better job of staying on top of things.
And onto the 2015 finale:
{Spiritual} Complete the SheReadsTruth Advent plan. I've long since given up on my Bible in a Year plan, unfortunately. But I'm committed to completing the Advent plan this year. (I think I completed it last year.) I'll attempt to tackle the Bible in a Year again in January.
{Financial} Spend no more than 25% of what I spend on myself. Let's be honest, if I say "Spend $0 on myself all month", that won't last. But of my "extra" spending--meaning not on the essentials--I'd like to spend 75% on others and 25% at most on myself.
{Social} Make the most of the holiday season. Things on my December activity list include: work party, zoo lights, ice skating, Parade of Lights, crafting, baking, and probably so much more. I love Christmastime and I'd like to do all the fun holiday things and do them with my friends and family!
{Mental} Keep up with my journals daily. I really enjoy taking even 15 minutes for quite time to write in my journals. I have two. A 5 Year Journal that asks a random question every day for five years. (It'll start to get cool next year since I started on January 1, 2015.) And a prayer journal. I started that on March 1, 2015 and I write 1 thing I'm thankful for, 1 thing I'm asking for, and 1 thing/person I'm praying for each day. A lot of times, I'll end up playing catch-up every couple of days instead of carving out that time each day.
{Physical} Don't gain "holiday weight". Admittedly, I'm already up a few pounds since October, but I'd like to not continue to gain and actually shed those extra pounds before 2016. That's a lofty goal considering holiday treats are my greatest weakness. (Gingerbread anyone?
{Personal} Figure out what, realistically, what I can afford in terms of buying a car and a house in the near and not-so-near future. I definitely need to get a new car in early 2016. My dear Rosie is on her last leg for sure. I wanted to have her for at least 5 years, but there's absolutely no way she'll make it to March of 2017, so we'll just have to call it close enough. In terms of buying a house, that's definitely more of a long-term goal, but something I need to start taking into consideration sooner rather than later.
{Professional} Bring in more new clients than last month. If there's one thing I'm passionate about, it's Pure Barre Boulder. January is always the biggest month for fitness and health, but I'd like to see more new clients walk through our doors in December than in November.

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So what to have? Well, it had to be a Dranei for the racial traits.
I already have 2 Dranei. My level 6 Priest food banker and a Shammy on a different realm. I was hoping to use the Dranei on HolyWarriors realm but don't want to level another priest so I created a new Dranei Shaman and levelled "her" to level 14 over the weekend when I wasn't doing dailies or skulking around SSC.
I also have a level 39 Tauren Shammy so I know I like the play style. Hopefully this will be my 4th or 5th char to level 70 before WotLK hits.
New Years Targets:
- 5 Chars to level 70
- Destroy Fucking Tossers
- Own WotLK
Order of Characters to get to level 70:
- EvilBastard the Warlock - currently level 62
- PS the Rogue - currently level 57
- Arcanite the Mage - currently level 44-ish
- FatherTed the ShadowPriest - currently level 35-ish
- BitchSlapper the Gnome warrior - currently level 32-ish
- HotPants the Elemental Shammy - level 14
EvilBastard is levelling with the hunter of TiceNits so that levelling depends on her.
PS the Rogue is patiently waiting in LFG in IF trying to get into Sunken Temple.
Arcanite the Mage has discharged his Scarlet Monastery duties and is now powering through the 40s.
FatherTed has been stagnating at level 35 for a long time now just popping out the odd potion to help other chars.
BitchSlapper the warrior powered up to the 32 then stopped dead in her tracks.
HotPants is currently a contender to hit level 70 in very few days /played but I haven't decided on her 2nd profession yet. Both Porkpie and HolyWarrior are miners so there is no point her mining as well, EvilBastard is an enchanter so all crap jewellery can be sent to him. If I ever level my Dranei Priest he will be Herbalist/Alchemist but my warlock is already that, so that might be pointless. Maybe I should make her a miner after all. Anyway, ramble over...


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Skip to comments.Hillary Clintons New Hard Choices Book:Seven Ways Obama Failed to Lead During Bin Laden Raid
Posted on 05/29/2014 5:36:49 AM PDT by lbryce
With her memoir, Hard Choices set to be released in the coming weeks, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her publishing company have provided an excerpt in which she claims President Obamas actions during the Bin Laden raid were as crisp and courageous a display of leadership that she had ever seen.
Here are 7 reasons that Obamas leadership during the raid was neither crisp or courageous.
1) Obama Canceled the Mission to Kill Bin Laden Three Times
Clinton writes about one of the strongest examples of decision-making under pressure:
Perhaps the most famous example from my four years as Secretary of State was President Obamas order to send a team of Navy SEALs into a moonless Pakistani night to bring Osama bin Laden to justice. The Presidents top advisors were divided. The intelligence was compelling, but far from definitive. The risks of failure were daunting. The Clinton memoir tries to paint a picture of decisiveness despite risks of failure and far from definitive intelligence. President Obama made the call despite the numerous doubts. That isnt necessarily the case, however.
According to a book released in August of 2012, titled Leading from Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him, a source with Joint Special Operations Command who had direct knowledge of the operation and its planning, claims that Obama squashed the kill order on bin Laden in January, February, and March of 2011. Bin Laden was successfully taken down in early May.
2) Obamas Indecisiveness Was Decided For Him
According to that same book, the three canceled kill missions were done so at the urging of the Presidents close advisor, Valerie Jarrett.
(Excerpt) Read more at thepoliticalinsider.com ...
Bill and Hillary will never forgive Obama for having usurped the presidency from them both and for quite awhile the hatred and revulsion they harbored towards him for having the temerity to challenge her as future President really stuck in her craw. Had there been a white candidate sitting in on Wright's diatribes, he would he have been gone on that first Sunday before his car ever entered the Church parking lot.
What shocked Hillary and her hordes of lesbian groupies was the total non-movement in the poll numbers even after that clip of Wright shrieking had been showing for 72 hours straight. In retrospect, that was the moment when Obama became unofficially president. Those videos of Wright were so incredibly devastating, and to her having those clips being thrown out into the public was nothing less powerful than a 20 Megaton news clip which should have had Obama's shadow swept off the sidewalk. But the amazing thing was that nothing, nothing at all happened and Hillary ended up with more than just her tale between her legs.
Okay, Obama kind of made it up to her by getting rid of her considerable campaign debts and accepted his Machiavellian offer as Secretary of State. But still nothing would ever ,could ever make up for what was surely their total absoluteness of her being the next C**T-in-Chief.
And now some of her secondary thrills begin. As we all know, there is nothing more pathetic, more useless, more of a persona non grata than a lameduck/ex-president.
It is conventional wisdom that had Algore enlisted, embraced Bil Clinton in his election campaign against Bush, there never would have been the embarrassing world wide attention being played out over a bunch of stupid, sticky CHADS, inspired by the Florida Board of Elections to make it easy for those arthritic old folks to cast a vote. But Algore, washamed of Clinton, wanted nothing to do with him and his litany of scandals, and that was Algore's biggest, any candidate's biggest electoral blunder ever.
Because while Clinton was spawned by some itinerant nobody of a one stand who even didn't stay the night, Bill Clinton is immortalized as the greatest campaigner ever, no matter his ethics or morals.
Now, you know what they say about never to "assume" but if Hillary gets the nomination, she won't allow Obama a single moment in which to show what a sport he is, absolutely won't allow him to do a single campaign jig, the proof of it all is everything she's thrown in her new book to start the payback of her her loss for the nomination back in 2008. I wish them both no luck at all.
Article link is broken.
This book praises Obama. It continues the Clinton ass-kissing all Dem candidates will perform or risk being called racist for criticizing the darkest-skinned President....so far.
Rev Wright was only an issue in conservative circles. The MSM did not cover the story aggressively.
Seven Ways Obama Failed to Lead During Bin Laden Raid According to Hillary Clinton
LETS STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANE Hillary had a nasty fall when she was about to testify WRT Benghazi. Hillary's all-girl State Dept said she was "up and about" in a week. But Bill recently said it took Hillary six whole months to recover from her fall.
Now the issue of Hillary's blood clot resulting in brain damage has been raised......but we need more details.
<><> Is she having blackouts?
<><> Did she suffer a brain aneurysm?
<><> Did she have an aneurysm removed?
<><> Did she become comatose?
<><> Did she go to any neurological centers?
<><> Was she in rehab?
Even with months of rehabilitation, victims of aneurisms can't
hold a thought for more than 20 seconds, according to experts in the field.
Blood Clots in the Brain---Blood clots in the brain are frequently caused by injury to the vessels in this area. Symptoms of blood clots include speaking difficulties, dizziness, lack of coordination, headaches, etc......
Causes of Blood Clots in the Brain---- Head injuries or trauma to the brain, head and neck can cause these clots to form in the brain. Blood clots in the brain are caused when bleeding occurs between the skull and the brain. The body will form a clot to stop the bleeding, which will put pressure on the surrounding brain tissue. Trauma to the head can also cause blood clots formed outside of the brain to break loose and become lodged in the brain, which can cause an ischemic stroke.
Travelling clots from other parts of the body will travel to a blood vessel that leads to the brain, causing a blockage that can lead to an embolic stroke or cerebral embolism. These travelling clots are more likely to cause damage to other parts of the body before they reach the brain.
Symptoms of Blood Clots in the Brain---There are a variety of symptoms one may experience when having blood clots in brain, ranging from headaches to difficulty speaking, depression and Ischemic Attack.
Headaches- Headaches associated with a blood clot will normally be found on one side of the head. These can be worsened by coughing or sneezing and can impair head movement or physical activity over time.
Speaking Difficulties- You may begin to slur your words or have difficulty speaking. This is especially prominent if you have a clot on the left side of the brain. Confusion- It may feel as though it takes longer to think, or your thinking capacity is not where it should be. You may feel confused or feel as though it takes longer than usual to understand things.
Changes in Personality- A blood clot can cause your personality to become altered from its usual state. You may suddenly feel very manic or normally energetic people can feel subdued.
Dizziness- Bouts of dizziness may occur from time to time. This may be accompanied by temporary blindness. Depression- Those who suddenly develop depression are frequently checked for blood clots in the brain to ensure that all portions of the brain are getting the right amount of oxygen.
Loss of Coordination- You may find yourself unable to move with the same level of coordination that you are used to. The ability to transfer objects from one hand to the other may be especially affected.
Seizures- Seizures caused by a blood clot can last up to two minutes. Seizures that last longer may be a sign of a more serious condition.
Paralysis- One side of your body may suddenly become paralyzed if you are suffering from a blood clot. The arm, leg and face will be especially affected by this. Ischemic Attack- This is also known as a "mini-stroke," which will cause dysfunction on one side of the body. If this condition escalates it can become a full stroke.
I have some fascinating details about some things that went on during that event from the inside. The source is credible.
Here is the jist of it: Jarret was vehemently against it unless Pakistan approved first. She actually wanted Pakistan to participate. Obama was under intense pressure from several folks, INCLUDING Hillary (for what it is worth). Obama so parsed and delayed decisions that training started without his approval and in secret. Obama purposefully DID NOT give THE ORDER to proceed. Instead, he made it clear that if the decision was to be made, it would be a CIA/military decision and the accountability for anything that went wrong would be with them. He wanted to be able to deny knowing about the secret op if anything went wrong. And he didn't want anyone to know it was about Bin Laden if it went wrong. In a conversation, captured by an e-mail, it was said, "He didn't say no and he will never say yes. It's on you if it goes bad."
This is why Obama was on the golf course when the raid started. He wasn't involved in the details and/or when the assault started. He wanted plausible deniability in case there was an "international" incident over it.
In reality, though it will never be known, Obama made NO decisive decisions on Bin Laden. He was actually against it. Look for Hillary to begin to take some credit for Bin Laden. Ironically, it sounds like she deserves some it (and I hate to even admit that). On the flip side, she let Obama take credit for it, so she shouldn't plausibly even be able to point to that as a success during her tenure as SoS.
Seven Ways Obama Failed to Lead During Bin Laden Raid According to Hillary Clinton
Correction, that should read:
never tiring of Wright's NOT GOD BLESS AMERICA BUT GOD **** America.
We won't get any of those answers. Hillary's records going way back are sealed, as are Obama's and Bill Clinton's. We are subjects to be used & abused by "our betters" for that's the way Hillary and the Democrat hierarchy view us. As long as they win/steal elections that will be our reality: Mushrooms that get a fresh load of manure dumped on us every 4 years.
That merely gives her something her constituents can relate to and identify with...
Thanks lbryce.
Hillary Clintons Hardest Choice: To Give New Ghostwriter Credit
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Wednesday, 26 October 2011
Marriage or Wedding?
As I read my friend, Adura's blog, I couldn't help but smile. She wrote on an issue that has being on my mind for a while. I had debated within myself if I should write anything in this regard but reading Adura's blog kind of assisted me to make up my mind. I smiled when I read her question on the obsession with being married. My first impression was that probably she has forgotten what it is to be an African or a Nigerian.
Historically, a woman is not respected in Nigeria except she is married. In the sixties, a girl is considered an old maid if she was not married by her early twenties. Though, there is a little bit of change when it comes to marriageable age probably due to education however, a girl is expected to get married after her first degree or at least be engaged. Anything short of this, would attract family meetings and people openly asking you when you would tie the knot. A wedding ceremony especially of siblings or friends would attract greetings in forms of prayer like ti e na a de o (yours will soon come) a be e se ti e na o laipe lai jina (we would join you in celebrating yours too, very soon) of course, you are expected to genuflect say an amen and also thank whoever for putting you under pressure. The pressure is everywhere you turn to not only at weddings; but also at naming ceremonies, birthdays, Christmas and New Year celebrations etc. Soon, the issue becomes a prayer point with everybody close saying a word of prayer concerning your singleness. After a while you can't help but be obsessed about it because everyone is anyway. It takes the grace of God and strong heart to survive this.
A woman is almost treated like someone who has an incurable disease from her family and the society at large. It is difficult even in a cosmopolitan city like Lagos, for a single woman to rent an accommodation though she has her money. In most instances, she has to front a man as her husband if she needs accommodation. In religious settings, special programmes are organised for singles in order to get hooked. On and on it goes each day, the single woman sees herself more like a victim than a victor. If all these are not enough to make anyone obsessed then what will?
Despite all, I think this is not just a Nigerian phenomenon but I believe that generally, at one point or the other, the biological clock starts ticking and the eagerness to obey the clock kicks in. Nevertheless, as I always ask my younger friends Is it marriage or the wedding? For the wedding is very easy, after all, it is just the celebration where we take aso ebi, call the local musicians, the alaga ijoko and the alaga iduro all the works for both the traditional and the church wedding but that's where it ends. After all the celebrations, the journey starts. Most people don't even understand what it takes to be married neither are they emotionally and spiritually prepared to marry. I have heard young girls giving deadlines as to when they want to get married without knowing or identifying what they want in a marriage. I asked a young friend of mine once, marriage or wedding? She could not give me an answer but only said, "I just want to marry before I am 30 years" As if that would bring an end to all her problems. I felt rather sad for her because I can see her towing the same path many took which led to failure. The truth is there is nothing wrong in being single. I read a book by Dr. Myles Munroe - Single. Married. Separated and Life After Divorce which further reiterated this. According to him, enjoy being single before getting married. Being single is not an illness that needs marriage to cure. Marriage on its own has its challenges and there is a need to be ready for these challenges to actually make a success out of it. Marriage is not going to complete you but you have to be complete before you enter a marriage. If not you are on the way to a broken home and heart. Moreover, I have seen a lot of married women who are not happy. Some try to hide it but for some they don't even bother again because the burden of the choice they made is heavy, too heavy for them to carry. Don't be fooled my sister. Marriage is not the ultimate problem solver.
Monday, 3 October 2011
The Parable of The Bitter Leaf and Walnut
, there is a lot of emphasis on analogy. This is often used to drive home a point without having to speak too much. This quickly cut to the chase of whatever the issue being discussed at this point. Sometimes, it provides solution to knotty issue; sometime it may provide succour to a depressed situation. Unfortunately, in the modern Nigeria , this style of speech is gradually fading away. The similarity of the Bitter leaf and the Walnut is just to the point of its sweetness. While, the bitter leaf is only sweet after it has been eating, the walnut is sweet even while it is being eaten. However, when water is drunk after eating the bitter leaf, it brings forth its sweetness but the walnut becomes extremely bitter if water is drunk immediately after eating it. There is a saying attached to the peculiarity of the bitter leaf which is; aadun lo gbeyin ewuro-there is sweetness after eating bitter leaf (direct translation). This is often said to someone who is going through a tough time just to encourage and give hope. But I have never heard any saying about the bitterness of the walnut after it has being eating. Nigeria
I have always wondered why walnut tastes bitter when one drinks water after eating it. I enjoy eating the walnut and consciously remember not to drink water immediately after eating it. As for bitter leaf, I avoided it like plague simply because of the bitterness. I could not understand why anybody would subject themselves to eating the bitter leaf even though it is a delicacy in the eastern part of
. I did not want a part of it. The name was enough to put the fear of God in me. I watched my mother eating it raw and I felt there must be something wrong somewhere with her. Then, my friend told me of the health benefit of eating the bitter leaf. The first day I ate it, I felt like throwing up, then I drank water and it tasted so sweet. Nigeria
My analogy of Bitter Leaf and the Walnut came up from the write-up I read on Facebook. A friend compared
to that of the Bitter Leaf soup. Though the writer used the medium for celebrating his wife but I wondered if truly Bitter leaf can be likened to marriage. I think it depends on each person's view about marriage. How many truly likened marriages to Bitter leaf before contracting it? A brother compared marriage to a night market where you go shopping without knowing what you are buying because it is dark. I tend to see marriage like the walnut you eat and consciously remember not to drink water so that it does not get bitter. University of Marriage
For most people, the courtship stage of marriage is often the sweetest. As couples, we treat each other with upmost respect and we are at our best behaviour. At that point, we have special songs, special spots and even private jokes. We talk for a long time without being conscious of time. We are each others best friends. We dress to suit our partner. We are like the peacock and just want to show off our beautiful feathers. We are not ashamed of our partner neither are we ashamed to express our love. We do those little things that bring a secret smile to our face at our solitary moments. When we are together, we appreciate the companionship, friendship and the period of occasional silence without feeling inadequate. Then we marry and things change. As much as I appreciate the responsibilities that come with marriage but all of a sudden we forget. We forget that to retain the sweetness of the walnut, we should not drink water but we do. We drink water and everything changes. We are no longer partners in building the marriage though appreciating our individual roles. We become resentful of each other. What brought us together now separates us. At the initial stage, we try to do it right but we soon give up because it is probably easier to give up. Wait a minute! We don't have to impress any longer after all we have conquered. Yet, we should show off our spoil of war shouldn't we? We go about with a permanent scowl on our faces. We no longer have any reason to smile to that secret jokes. We live together probably share a bed but emotionally and spiritually, we are apart. We have taken to praying fervently for a way out. Yet there is no easy way out and that's where the analogy of the bitter leaf may come in.
In experiencing the bitter leaf in our marriage, we may have to drink water to bring back the sweetness. We may have to go back to what we used to do in those days when our hearts somersault at the voice of our loved ones. When our heart skip a beat when we hear the approaching footsteps of the one we love. Oh! when we break out in sweats and jitters not in fear but in anticipation of what may take place later in the night. When we do not take things for granted but show off our beloved as the peacock shows off its feathers. At that point we would experience the joy of eating the bitter leaf
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Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. You may notice that this and future entries are shorter than usual; Career, family and book deal commitments have forced me to cut back some of my projects. Now, here's today's news
g Abodes -Scientists have found that Saturn's moon Iapetus is a well-preserved relic from the early Solar System. Studying the moon could yield important clues about the history of the outer Solar System. See http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2399&mode=thread
g Message -When NASA's Voyager spacecraft left the boundaries our solar system in 2003, it carried a golden record with greetings from our civilization for posterity - or for eventual discovery by space archaeologists from another civilization. The golden record was a beacon to the future. The idea of our own civilization using its probes as surrogate representatives prompts the question: Can we probe for such beacons in our own solar system? See http://www.spacedaily.com/news/seti04c.html. Note: This article is from 2004.
g Cosmicus -Scientists are designing new spacesuits that will provide increased mobility for human explorers on the Moon and Mars. The less bulky suits will allow humans to travel more easily and perform intricate scientific experiments on the surface of these distant worlds. See http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2398;mode=thread&
g Learning -Here's a neat classroom activity courtesy of NASA: "Planets in a Bottle." The lesson plan involves yeast experiments intended for 2nd through 4th grade students. See http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/msad16mar99_1a.htm.
g Imagining -Here's an interesting Web site: FAQ about Star Trek aliens: http://www.tcs.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/~hwloidl/FAQL-aliens-rasm.html. Though light on evolutionary origin, it's questions (and answers) often point toward the need for writers to consider that issue.
g Aftermath -If we hear from ET, not only can we expect his civilization to be an old one with a great time lag in correspondence, a SETI astronomer says. Could this limit the impact of extraterrestrial contact upon humanity? See http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_long_distance_011227.html. Note: This article is from December 2001.


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If Obama does not publically speak out against this venture, that makes him guilty of endorsing a known terrorist organization against America's best Middle East friend, Israel.
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. James 1:8Not only is the name of the vessel linked to the man Obama who occupies the White House through a book supposedly written by Obama with the same name, "Audacity of Hope," but one of the main supporters of the ship's venture, outspoken critic of Israel, Rashid Khalidi, director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs is a good friend from Obama's time in Chicago, is among the supporters of an appeal for funds to purchase the ship launched by the group last week. The Jerusalem Post reports that:
The Lebanese-Saudi Arabian- Palestinian-American Khalidi, an outspoken critic of Israel, garnered attention in 2008 when his friendship with Obama became a point of controversy during the US presidential campaign when Senator John McCain portrayed Khalid a Hamas supporter.
Khalidi's involvement in this new project is already a popular topic among rightwing bloggers and media personalities in America
"Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestinian arm.
Rashid Khalidi has now signed an appeal for funds to outfit another ship like the peace flotilla that would try to break Israeli's blockage of Gaza, the territory controlled by Hamas," American pundit Glenn Beck said on his syndicated radio show last week.
"Rashid Khalidi, a good friend of the president. The name of the ship: The Audacity of Hope."
Others supporters of US Boat to Gaza include author Alice Walker, activist Angela Davis, and Cindy and Craig Corrie, the parents of International Solidarity Movement activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an IDF bulldozer in Rafah in 2003.
While Khalidi will help raise money for the initiative, he said he does not plan to sail on the ship. More.Meanwhile, a Lebanese Gaza bound ship in the name of "humanitarian aid", carrying Lebanese women and catholic nuns has been forbidden to launch its Gaza-bound flotilla out of Lebanon.
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
My husband and the kids, tomatos and a papaya question!!!!
My husband with the pets! Look at that cute Doozey tucked into what we call the "Maximum Security Position"!!! This is where she likes to go during rain or storms! Baby, the cat, likes to take his heavy self (you may know how heavy a cat feels when the weight of his feet are on you) right up on your chest.
Today was rainy and the garden plants got a lot of water! Yeah!!!
Have you all seen these little tiny tomato plants that make a ton of little cherry tomatoes...that you can grow in a windowsill, cause the plants are so small??? They have some at my Lowes right now, and I think I must go back and buy one! I just ate a half package of grape tomatos for my midnight snack! YUM! It would be nice to grow my own midnight snacks!!! LOL.
Now, here is my Mom's second papaya off her trees! This was, I believe, her first time growing them, and she planted them from seed, which is impressive. She has, I want to say, 5 trees! Three of them are covered with blooms and early fruits. The first fruit she took off, was chilled and cut....and tasted like (and I'm not kidding)...tasted like butternut squash!!! This is so strange! For a minute, we wondered if it really was a papaya tree!!! LOLOL. Now, I know it must be something in the soil that makes it taste like this, but my question is...what can we do to the soil at this point to make the fruit actually taste like Papaya??? Any ideas???
Thanks in advance!!!
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- Betsy from Tennessee said...
Hubby and your pets look so comfy.... Love that picture...
We love cherry tomatoes--at least my hubby does. I'm not much on tomatoes --except those delicious Summer home-grown tomatoes. LOVE them!!!!
I have no idea about Papayas.... Hope you find out.
- Tuesday, June 01, 2010
- marianne said...
Oh Julie What a precious picture of your husband with the pets! And so funny. The cat indeed looks ....compact. I had one like that too, he was not fat just compact and he really weighted a lot.
How wonderful you can grow papayas there! They are very healthy. I always eat them in the tropics.Congrats on your awards and always nice to read new facts about you. I once saw a picture of you on your blog and I love your hair Julie!
Looked up the gelatin prints and can't wait to see what you will make. Cool!!!!
Good to be back.............
Have a nice day!
- Tuesday, June 01, 2010
- Serena said...
What a sweet pic of your hubby with the fur-kids. Had to giggle at the 'maximum security position'. lol
We've had rain here also.
Can't help you with the papaya taste....here in Australia, we call them pawpaws.
- Tuesday, June 01, 2010
- Claude said...
I know only too well how heavy a cat is on your chest... ugh...
Don't know a dang thing about papayas. I do know that those little tomato plants aren't too dependable. they tend to be extremely short lived. You'd be better off growing one of the standard grape or cherry tomatoes outside... they produce rather heavily.
- Wednesday, June 02, 2010
- Darla said...
Cute DH photo....Our cherry tomato plant is as large as the regular tomato plants...picked some last night, yummy! Can't help with the papaya at all...
- Wednesday, June 02, 2010
- Lisa at Greenbow said...
Maybe it is the variety she chose to grow instead of the soil. Or maybe they were left on the tree too long.?? I have no idea. This is one of those tropical things. Doosey looks so cute in her safe place. Luna would do that during a storm too if she could. Instead she hides in the bathroom that has no windows.
- Wednesday, June 02, 2010
- Bobbie Lynn said...
I have never had Papaya and I'm not sure why. I may have to buy one and try it out. The fruit is interesting.Sorry no help here : (
Love the photo with your Hubby and pets. Life is good. Have a great day Julie and keep enjoying your tomatoes.
Bobbie Lynn
- Wednesday, June 02, 2010
- Julie said...
Marianne- Welcome back home!!!!! Thanks for stopping by so soon after returning...gosh, you need some rest!!! :)
Serena- what a cute name...Pawpaw!!! My grandkids in Louisiana call their grandpa "Paa-Paw" (phoenetically)
Lisa- she ate the original papaya she had bought at the grocery store and it tasted perfect...isn't this the biggest mystery??? I am going to pose the question at Dave's Garden also.
Darla and Claude- I guess I will plant the regular size cherry tomato...but probably have to wait now until October to do so due to the heat here, sadly! Too bad those little teeny plants for the windowsill don't last long...thanks for telling me this, Claude!!!
Betsy- my fav is the grape sized tomato. Perfect round snack at night!!! LOLOL!
- Wednesday, June 02, 2010
- Teri C said...
I love that shot of hubby and 'kids'.
You always have such interesting gardening observations and questions.
- Wednesday, June 02, 2010
- Lynn said...
Henry was very happy to see his look alike here today!
Re the paypayas...could it be that she just is not watering or fertilizing correctly? I speak as if I know something, I do not.
Perhaps she needs to stick a circle of ripe papayas of the taste she likes around the trunk of the tree to give it a hint of what she expects from those on the tree. Maybe do this next season before the new ones bud out. Papayas teaching their own so to speak.
LOL sorry got a bit carried away here.
Also, look to see if any butternut squash are planted in the near vaciity of this tree. There may be some cross pollination going on.
Who knows, it sounds good to me!?
- Wednesday, June 02, 2010
- Diane AZ said...
The pets sure do love your husband! Our cat is not a lap kitty but he will sit right next to us like Doozey does. That papaya looks huge! I like to grow cherry tomatoes mostly because they're pretty. :)
- Wednesday, June 02, 2010
- Julie said...
Lynn- good ideas!!! I can't be sure there are no butternut squash planted in the neighborhood, but it is the wrong time of year here...because of heat.
I like the idea to plant papayas around the base to teach the plant what we expect!!! LOLOL! Thanks for the interesting tips!
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When Stéphane Dion won the Labour leadership several years ago many Labour insiders were not happy. Some long-time Labour supporters and campaigners I know even refused to work on campaigns for the Liberal Party during his leadership. "If only Ignatieff had won," they moaned. Well it did not take long before their dream became reality, and Ignatieff was head of the Liberal Party. The problem is, Ignatieff's leadership has not been any more successful than Dion's. The man seems desperately out of touch (maybe that's why he feels such a bond with Obama), arrogant, and frankly, irrelevant. Does he know this? Is this why he desperately tries to make everything about him, to prove he is relevant to Canadians despite having not lived here for most of the past three decades?
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what are all these "reasons" worth?
Not a drop of water nor one breath of air.
i dont think there is anything wrong with the situation i face or with the environment i find myself in. if there appears to be an error, a mistake or a regrettable development, it can be arising for only one reason - so that i can identify the problem and then later on, fix it.
it is so hard to resist the urge to question my own judgement or to feel unhappy about what life is putting your through.
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