I really like the design of the traditional Mandalorians in this, and Sabine with a lightsaber made sense for the plot and with her Darksaber training (but who taught Saxon?).
Gar Saxon was one of Maul’s Super Commandos.
Ah of course.
Good to hear, Mike!
Good perspective, Puggo!
I’m with Dom. I feel like it was down to Anakin being a kid and not knowing the proper words.
Kids are dumb.
Boy that episode was really good. Sabine has gone from the character I was probably most iffy about to one of my favorites.
I’ve actually been watching through the series again with a couple friends (after finishing out The Clone Wars with them) and Sabine was kind of a non-entity for a long time in the early series, but as of these last two episodes especially, she’s had one of the most interesting arcs out of everyone so far.
I really like the design of the traditional Mandalorians in this, and Sabine with a lightsaber made sense for the plot and with her Darksaber training (but who taught Saxon?). I also thought it was interesting to hear Saxon referred to as the Emperor’s Hand, which is yet another Zahn element we’re seeing make a comeback. It will be interesting to see where they go with that. I was interested to learn more about Mandalorian history and customs, what’s been happening since the Clone Wars, Sabine’s family was interesting (even if they simplified the whole “I don’t like you, oh wait now we’re all friends again” storyline a bit, but in a 22-minute show I’ll let that go), Fenn Rau is actually really cool, and I was honestly surprised that Sabine stayed behind at the end, as well.
I think the biggest success here is taking something that’s become a huge over-the-top silly fan thing and doing it justice without making it feel like fanservice. It’s a good plot, it makes sense within the story, it serves the characters well, but it doesn’t dip into the territory of crazy Mary-Sueing or Gary-Stuing or fanservice or whatever you want to call it (for me, at least). I could have done without the goofy Karen Traviss Mandalorian language, but this was otherwise a fantastic episode and I can’t wait to see where Sabine goes from here.
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/833160227914657793
Fuck this whole earth right now.
Thank god for Republicans, who are sure to stop the damn dirty lazy poor kids from stealing from taxpayers just because they’re hungry.
Hey I can pay to feed poor kids or I can pay for Trump to visit Mar-A-Lago for the ten thousandth time in a month.
I think I know which I’d rather my hard-earned dollars went to!
Speaking from Germany, where he was attending the Munich Security Conference, McCain said that without a free press, “I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That’s how dictators get started.”
McCain clarified that he wasn’t referring to the president as a dictator, but that attacks on journalists who are questioning those in power are usually a hallmark of autocratic governments.
“When you look at history,” McCain said, “the first thing that dictators do is shut down the press. And I’m not saying that President Trump is trying to be a dictator. I’m just saying we need to learn the lessons of history.”
“I’m not saying it, but I’m saying it.”
What about AA?
Yes, plenty of free options.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-refugees-idUSKBN15W2GN
Nine asylum-seekers, including four children, barely made it across the Canadian border on Friday as a U.S. border patrol officer tried to stop them and a Reuters photographer captured the scene.
As a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer seized their passports and questioned a man in the front passenger seat of a taxi that had pulled up to the border in Champlain, New York, four adults and four young children fled the cab and ran to Royal Canadian Mounted Police on the other side.
One by one they scrambled across the snowy gully separating the two countries. RCMP officers watching from the other side helped them up, lifting the younger children and asking a woman, who leaned on her fellow passenger as she walked, if she needed medical care.
The children looked back from where they had come as the U.S. officer held the first man, saying his papers needed to be verified.
The man turned to a pile of belongings and heaved pieces of luggage two at a time into the gully – enormous wheeled suitcases, plastic shopping bags, a black backpack.
“Nobody cares about us,” he told journalists. He said they were all from Sudan and had been living and working in Delaware for two years.
How this is a headline in America in 2017 is so far beyond my comprehension. The state of our nation today is absolutely pathetic and embarrassing.
The idea that people are fleeing our nation because they feel like we don’t care about them is so antithesis to what this nation should and used to stand for that it makes me livid and sick to my stomach. We are not some war-torn third-world failed state, we are the United States of America, the supposed bastion of peace and freedom and the embodiment of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” These people left their home country to come to the home of the brave and the land of the free to pursue our vaunted American Dream, and the fact that they literally fled the country two years later saying “nobody cares about us” means that we, as their fellow Americans, failed them. And for that we should feel great shame.
I only hope that we can one day be a great nation worthy of adulation and the aspirations of the rest of the world again. Until then, I hang my head.
Hang in there buddy.
I spent a long time after I got dumped in Canada feeling like someone was constantly reaching into my chest and crushing my heart and lungs. Like, two and a half years where I barely coasted through life and almost dropped out of my masters degree with everything but my thesis complete haha.
I’m only just now getting back to my feet after clawing my way out of that pit. But the good news is that with time and distance, things can and will get better on that front.
Yeah, while I’m all for being wary of stuff, I always kinda roll my eyes whenever I hear “Will we even have elections next year?!” or “He’s just like a fascist/Hitler” or “Just wait for the internment camps to start popping up!”
But god damn does he make a piss-poor case for himself when he says shit like that.
Yeah Mattis is pretty reasonable, despite the nickname (and I can only assume that’s why Trump picked him, not realizing he isn’t actually insane).
Yeah, I only kid about the nickname. It’s probably tame as far as the military goes.
Thanks, man.
I really hope McCain really gets back in the fight here and then doesn’t run next election. He should go out on a really high note.
Secretary Mattis also delivered a nice speech at the conference. You know things are bad when the guy nicknamed “Mad Dog” is the sanest man in your administration. Mattis always seemed to me like Trump’s only good pick, so hopefully he can do some good there.
Maybe when someone starts supporting me with real dollars. =P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ_Xz-HVOBU
Great speech, but let’s see some action this time, McCain.
Apparently I’m “out of free articles this month” so they can fuck off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ_Xz-HVOBU
Great speech, but let’s see some action this time, McCain.
I was lucky enough to live across the street from a drive in theater and when it came to that theater, I watched it EVERY night from my front porch standing on a chair to see over the drive in fence
That’s really cool!
Yeah, that’s one of those killer slices of Americana you don’t get anymore.
I assume there will be plenty of editing to be done to an official OOT restoration if we get one.
Fuck, yes that is what my second link was supposed to be.
I kinda thought so but didn’t want to be presumptuous!
Wait does this mean Fox News is fake news now too? Is nothing sacred?
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/832396832974131200
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/832396832974131200This is when you know shit is fucked
I saw this one earlier: https://twitter.com/johnnydollar01/status/832329690601910273
Also your links are the same.
Jesus Christ why are we still so preoccupied by this whole email thing? Meanwhile even Secretary Mattis says RUSSIA INFLUENCED OUR ELECTIONS.
Who gives a shiiiiiiiiit about Hillary’s emails right now?
Oh right because we have to continue the obfuscation. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
I’m trying to imagine a situation where someone who can’t handle their finances should be allowed to handle a gun.
I mean, granted we don’t know everything about the veteran in the article I linked, but I don’t see why he shouldn’t be allowed.
Again, I agree with the intent of the bill, but I’m not so sure the implementation is as sound as it has the potential to be misapplied.
I’m curious what one of the few sane pro-gun people I know (Tyr) thinks about this.
I’ve been (stupidly) assuming that this was part of some larger bill that was actually sensical, but no, the gun lobbies are just worried about old mentally ill people who can legally not handle their own finances being able to buy guns.
It’s complex, but I’m glad you brought it up because I’ve been annoyed today seeing it in the news painted by the media as “WOW REPUBLICANS BASICALLY HAND GUNS TO INSANE KILLERS?!”
The intent of the bill is to keep mentally ill people from owning guns, which seems reasonable to me. Sure.
The issue is that the brush they use is a broad one. So it’s not just potentially dangerous people who are affected: it could be someone who is normal in every other way, but is so dyslexic that they can’t balance a checkbook. Just because you can’t handle your finances doesn’t mean you’re a potential danger to those around you.
But it might be indicative that you can’t make rational decisions as far as guns are concerned. Is a dyslexic person really incapable of handling their own finances? Sure they may need to some help to read things and add up numbers, but surely they are still capable of making their own decisions in regards to their finances. That is what I thought we are talking about - people who were so mentally ill that they couldn’t make their own financial decisions.
I don’t disagree with the first part of the premise at all, I just feel that the way the law was written and the way that “mental illness” is determined with regards to how the law is implemented is too vague at present.
While being unable to handle your finances can certainly mean that you aren’t of sound enough mind to possess a firearm, I don’t think that should be the only metric that decides whether or not you are of sound enough mind to possess firearms.
Many of the arguments posted here for the electoral college are countered by Koza in the debate I posted earlier - in most cases there is data to the contrary. I strongly recommend watching it in its entirety, as many of these arguments - as well as many assumptions posted here about the underlying bases for the EC - are not well founded.
As for the argument that a popular vote would result in some states not having a voice, well, that’s certainly the case now (only it’s a different set of states).
I’ll have to check it out. I’m sure my arguments don’t really measure up to those from people who are far smarter and more informed than I.
Yeah, thanks for reminding me about that Puggo. I meant to go back and watch it and then completely spaced it.
I’ve just finished the video and while I still lean more towards Hulme’s point of view, Koza made very good points (and explained things about the NPV initiative that I didn’t know which was very welcome), and so have Dom, Ryan, and Puggo during the course of this discussion.
Just so I’m clear, it’s not so much that I’m opposed to a change as it is that I feel there were very good reasons that the system was put in place and I believe that many of those reasons are still valid and shouldn’t be discounted when we talk about reforms and changes to the system.
I used to be big on abolishing the colleges until a few years ago.
What changed your mind?
My apologies. I didn’t complete my thought in my final paragraph: I used to be big on abolishing the colleges until a few years ago when I did some research into the reasons the system was put in place. Then follows the rest of the paragraph.
Many of the arguments posted here for the electoral college are countered by Koza in the debate I posted earlier - in most cases there is data to the contrary. I strongly recommend watching it in its entirety, as many of these arguments - as well as many assumptions posted here about the underlying bases for the EC - are not well founded.
As for the argument that a popular vote would result in some states not having a voice, well, that’s certainly the case now (only it’s a different set of states).
I’ll have to check it out. I’m sure my arguments don’t really measure up to those from people who are far smarter and more informed than I.
Yeah, thanks for reminding me about that Puggo. I meant to go back and watch it and then completely spaced it.