1 I'm sorry to hear that. Can they even transplant those these days?
2 - Very hard to find a Hylian donor these days.
Get stuck with a Goron one and before you know it you'll be shitting bricks.
OP last: Never. It doesn't work like that anymore.
Also how 'bout this raid on Michael Cohen's office, right? When does the dam break and apolitical people feel a shock and everything is crashing down?
When Trump is charged or it affects them personally, I'd guess, whichever comes later. Fun fact: Nixon's approval rating never dropped below 20 percent, and Fox News didn't exist back then. I realize apolitical isn't the same thing as supporting the president, but still.
I am very suspicious whether Rosenstein, Wray, and other Trump appointees are really part of this effort as the last few days have implied. My fear is Mueller, like Comey before him, is mentally infected by the need to treat congressional Republican attitudes as valid by default, he knows they will trash anything he reports, so he sees it as better to avoid that outcome and therefore is gearing up for a massive rugsweep.
7 might be right, and that would be extremely depressing.
I choose instead to believe the apparently bipartisan consensus that Mueller is a straight shooter with a real commitment to the rule of law, a species that has been fully eradicated from the ranks of elected Republicans but may still survive among career public servants. The scale and brazenness of corruption on display has to shock anybody who's not a committed partisan, so I'm hoping that's where Mueller is.
I mean, the president's frequent statements that the DOJ exists to protect him personally, that if he'd known Sessions wouldn't kill this investigation he never would've hired him, that there's been no obstruction *except for his fighting back against the investigation* -- this is just what he's said in public!
And the fact that he's already indicted 19 people and gotten several guilty pleas strongly suggests he's not engaged in a cover-up...
I don't know that a white guy starting a BLM page or raising money means it's necessarily a fraud, but if he's taken $100k and done nothing with it then fuck him.
I'm guessing Trump is so deep in organized crime and money laundering that Mueller knows his reputation is shit if he doesn't play it straight. Eventually it will all come out, the question is whether it's now or 30 years from now.
$100,000 is barely anything in terms of white-people being frauds.
I've heard that a white male can be so bad at relationships that it costs $150,000 just to keep one former sex partner from talking to the press.
I don't even know which Tyler Perry movie that's about.
I've heard that a white male can be so bad at sex that it can be worth $150,000 to keep one former sex partner from talking to the press.
Can God create a white male so bad at sex that He would have to pay Himself $150,000 to suppress the evidence?
Let's wait to see what comes out if Weinstein goes to court.
In retrospect, it seems blindingly obvious that, even leaving aside fake news, tools which make it easier for everybody to learn what everybody else is really thinking would lead to massive conflict.
Poul Anderson wrote that as an SF story back in the 1950s.
This is just for your amusement:
West Coast niece has begun preparation on her bah mitzvah. It's rattling my mom, who believes that she'll be brainwashed and become extremely religious and proselytizing. I am not worried about that.
East Coast Brother mentioned yesterday that he's terrified he'll be invited to the bah mitzvah, and I didn't know how to make sense of that, so I started asking him questions. It tumbled out that he thinks West Coast Brother is absolutely crazy. ECB says, "Our grandparents and greatgrandparents worked very, very hard to separate themselves from Judaism. Why on earth would we want to undo all their hard work and progress?!"
I questioned him further, and apparently anti-Semitism looms larger in his mind than any other potential benefit from an organized religion. Specifically, you want to give your kid every possible advantage so they can go to the best college and optimize their future very tightly, so you shouldn't burden them with any possible angle for prejudice, like a Jewish identity.
I questioned his narrow view of what constitutes a good life but didn't pick a fight over it. AIN'T HE CRAZY?!
Is "bah mitzvah" a thing or the best typo ever?
Something typo ever. I even did it several times, didn't I.
Also, ECB seems kind of nuts. It's not like antisemites are checking to see how people with Jewish ancestors are self-identifying.
Is the bah mitzvah the hippie transgender version?
"bas mitzvah" would work, because it's better "bat" and "bar".
Is the bah mitzvah the hippie transgender version?
IT IS NOW!
I'm trying to figure out if I say "bah mitzvah" in my head, and I don't think I do? I think I think bat? Who knows. These days I constantly have a niggling feeling that I'm getting something wrong that I can't place.
Anyway, East Coast Brother is totally right. I'm all about self loathing and wandering round-shouldered away from the wind-blown ashes of the past.
It does weird me out a little that what I think of as an ordinary level of Judaism doesn't seem to be generationally stable. Like, I grew up around a lot of Reform Jews who went to Hebrew school, and were bar mitzvahed (less often bat mitzvahed), and celebrated the major holidays, and were sort of vestigially kosher-ish at home while not being really seriously kosher. But the ones I know seem to mostly be raising their kids as completely secular. Not that this is a bad thing, particularly, it just feels peculiar to me.
People must still be performing Judaism around here. My neighborhood has two yeshiva schools (boy and girls) plus a school for not-yeshiva Jewish people.
There's probably more than two yeshivas, but only two that are like, school-school.
There was a guy who, I'm told, was Jewish but not raised very Jewish. While still a child at home, he surprised his parents by becoming very, very, very Jewish. Skip a few years and he gets on the TV by becoming the first (or best) Jewish Prepper (preparing for the end of the world, not Sabbath). Then, he jaywalks right in front of me with all his kids in tow despite the fact that there was nobody behind me and he could have just waited and it was too wide of a street to jaywalk with small kids. Then he becomes the Republican nominee for mayor in a moderately-sized city named after a British prime minister from the Whig party. Then he moves to Israel. Then the general election in which he was running happened. He didn't tell anybody he left the country, selling his house and taking his family with him. A local reporter just happened to notice.
I'm not sure what the point of this story is.
The point is, East Coast Brother is right.
My siblings and I did not have b-mitzvahs. We all married "out of the faith" except that my sister made her spouse-to-be convert to Judaism. Their two children had b-mitzvahs. My sister's older child just got married to a young man of Lebanese and Mexican ancestry, who was raised in the Greek Orthodox faith. The wedding was officiated by family friends and combined elements of both their religious traditions. I suspect they plan to have children eventually, and I'm curious to see how they will handle the religion question.
Making your spouse-to-be convert and then leaving them at the altar is the ultimate power play.
a moderately-sized city named after a British prime minister from the Whig party.
Walpole, Massachusetts?
I would have bet you made that up.
I just saw a notice from Facebook and I see that that Facebook uses "their" as a singular, gender neutral pronoun. I think that means it is settled and I can go on about my life as if I backed the right horse in that debate.
"Move fast and break pronouns."
Next step, make "their" only singular and the plural "theires".
I can't control the future. Just see it.
Round here you meet someone named Gladstone and they'll probably be from the Blackfeet nation.
I see that that Facebook uses "their" as a singular, gender neutral pronoun.
FACEBOOK: Uses "their" as a singular pronoun
JANE AUSTEN CHARACTERS: Use "their" as a singular pronoun
FACEBOOK: Very interested in the details of everyone's relationships
JANE AUSTEN CHARACTERS: Very interested in the details of everyone's relationships
FACEBOOK: Distressed by relationship with a wealthy but insensitive young man
JANE AUSTEN CHARACTERS: Distressed by relationship with a wealthy but insensitive young man
FACEBOOK: Subject of detailed scrutiny and questioning by lots of unpleasant old people
JANE AUSTEN CHARACTERS: Subject of detailed scrutiny and questioning by lots of unpleasant old people
Round here you meet someone named Gladstone and they'll probably be from the Blackfeet nation.
The Blackfeet, a Native American nation known for their intricate beadwork, complex oral tradition, support for Irish home rule and scepticism about the value of tariffs on agricultural products.
I notice another crossover: Gladstone was known as the Grand Old Man; the Blackfeet chief is Earl Old Person.
Reader, you have 1 notification: They married them.
Relationship status: it's complicated by the decline of the landed gentry