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After cheering for death, cheering for "Let him die!", and booing a gay soldier; I have a bad feeling that the majority of the GOP voting base could care less.

Faith is believing what you know ain't so. - Mark Twain

Having first-hand experience on how Rick Perry governs, Obama may be bad but Perry is so much worse. While Obama may lay the groundwork for the dismantlement of entitlements and social programs, hold off on environment reform, and maintain the tax breaks for the wealthy. Perry will do his best to de...

The war in Libya is over. More precisely, governments and media have decided that the war is over, despite the fact that fighting continues. The unfulfilled expectation of this war has consistently been that Moammar Gadhafi would capitulate when faced with the forces arrayed against him, and that h...

That's gotta be the worst case of technobabble-itis I've ever seen! It's quite clear that the Metroid writers pay even less attention to their technical advisers than the Star Trek writers do. I mean, "supercooled plasma"? That's absurd. Since they were using 'superheated magma' on one of...

Rebels are saying that they did capture him, but somehow he escaped.

As far as Saif's claim that this is all an elaborate trap for the rebels, well...I feel a bit of deja-vu here, this seems to be like the trap for the rebels in RoTJ...which didn't turn out so good for the regime there either.

In other words no, we don't have much.

By my count that is 3 of them, other reporting that his loyalists are holed up in the Rixos Hotel, which is where I expect Ghaddafi to be hiding...a place NATO would never bomb.

Watching this live on...

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

They are reporting that most of the city is under Rebel control except for small pockets of resistance...and Ghaddafi is releasing another audio...

It wouldn't surprise me, the rebels have their trial with Saif...and I really don't see Ghaddafi surrendering anyway. He has no way out and nowhere to go, his options are very limited.

Just in from Reuters...Saif Al-Islam captured by rebels.. Linky Rebels capture Gaddafi son Saif Al-Islam - NTC Sun Aug 21, 2011 9:07pm GMT TUNIS Aug 21 (Reuters) - Libya's rebels have captured Muammar Gaddafi's son, Saif Al-Islam, the head of the rebel National Transitional Council told Al Jazeera t...

Not sure how effective they would be in warmer climates, or if the rumors are true that the cold is because of them...

I have a feeling we will find out when the next book comes out.

The Others fear fire. What does Mordor have in abundance? Orks and fire. The Others are thoroughly fucked. Have a very nice day. -fgalkin Respectfully, the Nights Watch have fire, the Children of the Forest have fire, the Wildlings have fire, everyone has fire. If fire and numbers were all you need...

Unfortunately another game came along called Mass Effect 2 and totally changed how biotics worked. I also am a bit skeptical of the usefulness of throwing a guy into a wall who could survive atmospheric re-entry.

Do we have any numbers on the firepower of ME weaponry?

I don't think Shep can survive the Spartan Wank.

As I recall his armor and shields could shrug off 30mm rounds and even survived an anti-tank missile. This it to say nothing of genius level intelligence, super-human reaction time, massive strength, etc.

what if the gate opens North of the Wall and leads to Darkest Mordor? We get an immediate 9 vs. Others conflict with more Orcs than you can shake a stick at, and you might need little miss badass Stark to kill the Witchking.... There wouldn't be a major conflict. Sauron is skilled in diplomacy and ...

You are not wrong.

Thanas wrote:
Yes, that is it. IIRC Jon's wounds smoke a bit as well.

His stab-wound looked like it was smoking, but wouldn't that just be from the cold? I do think it is significant but I think the Red Priestess and her god would be interested in how that looked.

Other than being somewhat fire-resistant I don't think their wounds are any different. There was that bit about Danny's hands when wounded leaked a 'white fluid' one would have thought it was pus but GRRM mentions pus often enough but chose not to do so in this case. I don't recall off-hand if Jon's...

Also, the R+L=Jon Snow theory might very well be canon by now, given all the hints Martin dropped in this book (like the previous candidate's baby being stillborn and his wounds behaving exactly like those of somebody with dragon blood). I think that theory just got a strong shot in the arm by this...

So the bitch is going to be defended by FrakenGregor...or rather Ser Robert Strong. But the Sept has to choose it's champion and my money on that is going to be none other than Lancel Lannister. Oh now that is going to be very rich, Cersei's freedom will cost her having to watch a monster kill her ...

I think the Westeros side is an extremely complicated thing to consider... These people do not get along, if the gate opened next to Kings Landing before the death of King Robert that is one thing and you could get a good sized force there. If the gate opens across the Narrow Sea or during the subse...

If I had to guess. Jon Snow is quite dead, and not entirely unwarranted. The Wall existed for thousands of years with the tradition of keeping the Wildlings from marching south, and that is exactly what Jon proposed. This being said the real enemy is the Others, but the Brothers just haven't had th...

Further, there's no claim that access to consul would have assisted in his defense or materially altered any aspect of his trial or appeals process up to the point where it was discovered he was a Mexican citizen and it became the central issue of appeal (because he was unambiguously guilty and the...

The feeling I got from the movie was that the way the MI worked was that it was never meant to be an effective military. Military service is more a right of passage, so that everyone who wants to be important has to have gone through this experience and will have the "right" views. Do the...