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Thread: [KylarStern & Tortoise] Dancing With Myself;;

The girl smiled, nodding at his comment. Their love toward dogs was one of the few things they had in common. However, it only seemed to heighten the attraction. Her and James had a lot in common, including over achieving personalities, yet after a while she realized that it was tiring and not so exciting to know that your boyfriend does just about everything you do, completely invading every aspect of your life. Hearing him speak, she felt her eyes grow wide for a moment despite herself. He was putting everything so awfully bluntly that she wondered if he was being bitter or sarcastic. He was still very much in love with her. Butterflies filled her stomach, all hunger disappearing instantly. She felt the way she used to feel on their first dates, when she would sit by her phone, hopeful that he would call her again. ??Literature, that??s nice,? she nodded after having realized that she had remained silent long enough for him to answer. ??I bet you??re a great teacher,? she smiled warmly, twisting a lock of hair between her fingers as she sought appropriate words. ??And to answer your question?,? she started with a deadly serious expression, ??yes, that??s precisely what I??m doing. Of course the ex-husband can say no if it makes him uncomfortable,? she added, her lips melting into a toothy grin. She was probably pushing things too far ?? way too far. When he summed up the situation that much became painfully obvious. Being alone with a man while one??s fianc was out of town was bad enough, yet when that man was an ex-husband she still loved? Their status was making things so complicated that she wished she was single. Picking up her cheeseburger after all, she took a bite, her expression filling with ecstasy. ??Oh god, this is good,? she exclaimed playfully, setting the thing down. It was a heart attack on a plate, yet the deli sure knew how to cook. ??Oh, I finally learnt how to cook by the way,? she beamed. Considering the fact that she seldom ate anything other than vegetables she knew how to prepare a number or light salads yet never went beyond that. After her career ended she figured that she could let herself eat and started learning. It turned out to be quite a fun task, and surprisingly enough she still hadn??t gained any weight. ??If you do come over, I??ll cook something for you,? she nodded with a resolute expression. She wished he would come ?? Pogo loathed James with passion, and she never figured out why. The dog was like her child, and if the dog approved, a man was definitely father material. Desiree mentally slapped her at the thought. She was awarding points to the two men to figure out what to do. It was far from being the most mature solution, and she doubted it would be a very effective one, too.
Thread: [KylarStern & Tortoise] Dancing With Myself;;

He laughed when she took that bite and moaned in ecstasy over a cheeseburger. Now there was a sound that set his pulse racing and threw any semblance of a decent thought out the window. He watched her chew through the burger, getting little smudges of mayo and mustard on her lips that she licked off slowly. She wasn??t teasing him or anything, she just had a natural sensuality that always got his boat rocking. When they were married, he could just sit and watch her for hours at a time. He had never met a woman who could make something as mundane as doing the dishes, look like foreplay. She always had an enticing figure, but he was even more conscious of it now. She had aged like expensive wine. Looking even, dare he say it, sexier than before? Watching her, he had this overwhelming urge to lean over and kiss her? to feel those soft, full lips pressed to his own. With great effort, he reeled his mind in and said, ??And why does that sound like a dare?? The air between then was sexually charged and there was a palpable current of attraction that was finally obvious to the both of them. He took a long sip of the now insipid drink, all the ice having melted and watered it down. But the cool drink helped to calm his nerves a little. He shrugged and said with a smile, ??Ah well? I??ve not had many complaints so I guess that??s good? referring to how great a teacher she thought he was. So she??d learned to cook? Now there was a surprise. She had always been a light eater. It wouldn??t do for a dancer to put on too many calories, after all. For a moment he was saddened when he remembered that, that part of her life was as good as over. So that??s why she was having a cheeseburger after so long. Instead of moping over the accident, she had decided to turn the other cheek and live for herself. She had decided to enjoy herself and everything that she??d denied herself for so long. He wondered if that included him. Although, he never thought of himself as something sinful that she had ??denied?? herself. But it was a nice picture and he smiled. ??Desiree D??Aether! I hope you aren??t trying to impress me now!? he said with a mock serious expression, which quickly dissolved into a grin. And then to a smaller smile as he looked her straight in the eyes and whispered, ????Cos you know you don??t have to try.? He was already looking forward to the weekend. Home cooking, possibly a walk on the beach with a big ol?? Lab frolicking around them? the picture looked almost like a family. A happy one. He couldn??t help but wonder, if it would lead to anything more.
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Desiree laughed at his comment, a sly, mischievous expression gracing the pretty face. She shrugged, tilting her head to the side, turning her straw around in the glass. ??Maybe it is, maybe it isn??t,? she murmured, her voice low and almost seductive although the latter wasn??t quite intentional. The sexual tension quickly became obvious to her as well. She hasn??t been with a man since her accident, and it??s been over a month. James?? absence, although satisfying in many ways, left her extremely lonely in the most physical of senses. Now, as she was sitting with the man she was still convinced was the one, she was realizing to what extent. As their conversation turned that way, she couldn??t help but remember a more intimate aspect of their marriage. Where James was more conservative, Nathan managed to satisfy her in just about every single way. Although it clearly wasn??t all about sex, the sex did take place often and was beyond incredible to her. They were like two pieces of a puzzle, made for one another. She briefly shut her eyes, the image of them tangled on top of the covers coming to her mind. The memory of it alone was so arousing she had to open her eyes and dismiss it before she did something stupid. Their date on the weekend was probably a giant mistake if she hardly resisted the temptation when they were separated by a table and surrounded by people, what in the world would she do when there was nobody but them? Her teeth dragged along her lower lip as she thought of that, clearly suggesting that she was either nervous or thinking about something dirty. Her habits were awfully predictable ?? at least to him, since he has had the time to learn most of them. ??What?? She blinked as he spoke again, growing flustered. ??No, of course not,? she giggled, cursing herself for acting like a schoolgirl. ??I just thought you??d be proud of me, I could never really cook,? she smiled meekly, his words sending her heart racing yet again. She took another bite of her burger, setting it aside. Halfway through it and she couldn??t take another bite. ??God, the burgers here are huge,? she exclaimed, brushing a disobedient strand of hair. ??I??m really happy we ran into each other,? she stated, laughing as she realized to what extent her sentence was literal. There were so many things she wanted to tell him. Reach out and grab his hand. Lean over the table and kiss him. She glanced at the papers that rested next to her, sighing. ??I teach dance, its history and all that, which shouldn??t require a lot of work on my behalf, but god! It??s the first day and I already have to go through a couple of hundred papers. I admire you,? she smiled warmly. ??What time??s your next class?? She wondered, glancing on a watch that was lost between her bracelets. She only had a half an hour left.
Thread: Corporations to Buy Elections

So the Supreme Court ruled that corporations and presumably other organizations, but it's the billions of corporate money we ought to be worried about can spend as much as they want in political races to benefit their candidates. The ruling was 5-4, broken down with conservatives in favor and liberals against, and Washington Republicans almost universally praised it. This makes sense, as the Republican party usually benefits from large corporations, because Republicans tend to do things like let corporations exploit tax loopholes putting tax burden on regular people and remove regulation allowing corporations to charge whatever the hell they want, allowing them to collude to fix prices, etc.. The extra money will mean that almost the only message you're going to hear is the one side, regardless if they're lying or not. I actually think this is an incredibly horrible decision. Corporations are NOT people, they don't make decisions like people, and corporate goals and interests and therefore the candidates they support are not the same as a citizen's interests. But since the Civil War, businesses have been allowed to operate as if they were entities, and this has led to all kinds of complicated idiocy. Such as this. Partisan politics is already out of control if one side introduced puppies are adorable legislation, the other would immediate launch into anti-puppy rhetoric, and this money is only going to mean the Republicans are going to be able to drown out the Democrats, regardless of whether or not they're the right people. I think the last administration should have shown people the flaws of one-sided debate. Agree or disagree, you ought to at least hear both sides, and with this kind of funding, that's not going to be possible. It all comes down to money, and corporations are going to give theirs to the person that will let them make the most. Investing millions to make billions. And the citizens are going to suffer for it government for the benefit of business is actually one of the classic elements of fascism, as is a single-party government. If this is allowed to go down, we're on our way to something that makes the Bush years look like a sunshiny day. That's my prediction, at least. Thoughts? Reactions?
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Democrats are just as bad as Republicans. One is a party of no ideas and the other a party of bad ideas. This is all fucking ridiculous. What it all comes down to is this is merely the most blatant in a series of steps to make it clear that money vote. Corporations have been considered human, for tax purposes for a long time so I've been wondering when they'd finally be allowed other human rights. The only difference between what will happen now and what happened before is that big business will no longer be constrained by the aegis of some sort of actual give-a-shit concerning under the table donations and money funneling through multiple organizations. Now it's just a fucking holiday giveaway. Cheney was able to walk away with his campaign contributions, right? What's to stop future presidents from walking away with theirs?
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I think Robin Williams recently summed it up in a single comedic, yet intelligent point we should treat our politicians as we do our racecar drivers. As in, when they go to work, in front of a camera or simply going about their day, their suits should be covered in the patches of whomever has donated to them. This way we'll know which people are owned by Texaco, which by Verizon, which by Chase and so on. Whether or not that ends up helping matters I'd at least like to be aware of who's fucking me over! But in all seriousness, I try to keep an eye on things like this and my despair echoes your own. As much as I want to believe in the country of my birth, believe that it not only won't collapse before I do but that it'll be going stronger than ever when that time comes, I find myself more and more losing faith because of such issues. When is the last time there was a protest a real one? When is the last time people stood up as a group and said that this is not acceptable? The problem is that those in charge have figured it out, controlling the media, controlling the candidates, doing everything they can to have the masses believe there's only Right or Left, and that even a suggestion of an alterier solution is unpatriotic.
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I still remember the first time I lost faith in the system. It was the governor's race, time before last, for the state of Washington. Closest election margin in history. A lot of people I know over here focused only on that and thought the election was a shining example of every vote counting and such. But you had three recounts, each with different results. There were some 8000 odd more votes counted than actual registered voters in the state And the final result was by less than an 8000 vote margin, and it all came down in the end to a board of three people in King County voting to allow some 500 odd votes Again, still more than the final victory margin to be counted that were thrown out previously due to being illegible. Oddly the Florida thing in 2000 didn't have that evisceral effect on me. Then again, I was too young to vote then, just barely, whereas I did vote in the above election. Course, then you see examples of protestors now a day, and the civilian opposition. Big change from the days in my history books where people were getting beaten, firehosed, and dogs sicced on them. Especially when I was seeing that Penn and Teller episode which just highlighted some of the things I had been seeing. A Peace Rally with Che Guevara posters as a symbol of peace. Protestors in Washington who thought they scored a victory because they Made a real connection with that security guard and were shooed out. When politicians do thier road tours and protestors are given Designated Protestor Zones, usually a few miles from wherever the political figures are. The Redistricting which leaves the political district maps looking like some digital mosiac. And now this. Getting bad out there. I'm reminded of the old quote No man should be afraid of his government. But I routinely am. Especially as I continue to hear things like legislation being voted on that no one had even read in its entirety, much less reviewed and carefully weighed. And now we will have elections being bought. At least on the national scale, maybe the state. Not to say the system isn't broken entirely. At least on the local scale, city and county I've seen it work. I've been able to get results, and at least have my representatives listen to me, if not consider and champion ideas I propose. But State, Federal... I have no hope, and I don't see them even considering turning down the right road.
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On redistricting Remember a few years ago when those Texan representatives fled the state so the state government wouldn't be able to complete a vote? That was when the governor was forcing through some hinky redistricting to right and properly gerrymander the Texas voting districts. The redistricting was off-schedule from when they were SUPPOSED to redistrict, and was being forced through because the governor had a majority and if the vote was cast, there was no way his opposition could beat him. So they used the only tactic they could tried to keep them from having a quorum enough to hold the vote, and they only way they could do that was to not be present in the state. That is literally the only thing they could do to even slow down this technically illegal except it was being perpetrated by the people who make the laws, so they could call it whatever they wanted redistricting action. So of course they were painted in the media as freaks and madmen. Never mind the questionable politics they were protesting. Buuuuut the perception of the corporate-owned, money-controlled media as liberal is a rant for a different day. The parties involved? Let's just say the absentee crazy politicians were Democrats.
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I recall reading about that. I also recall that they had Texas Rangers raid the place the politicians were hiding out in and drag them back to Texas. I also recall thinking that somene should rightly be pissed about jurisdiction protocols in there as well.
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I'm also of the belief that politicians should have patches showing sponsors. Not only do I get to know whom I'm voting for, it's one of the few ways to add colour to the place. rim shot That joke is less funny after Obama, but it still works.
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I have little to no real knowledge of politics, but what this says to me is 'whoever has the most money wins the election.' Would that be right, or am I missing something?
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Zombies Galore said Democrats are just as bad as Republicans. One is a party of no ideas and the other a party of bad ideas. This is all fucking ridiculous. Click to expand... I can name a few democrats that are actually genuinely good, intelligent people. Al Franken, Howard Dean, Bernie Sanders only caucuses with them, but still. On the other hand, on the Republican aisle, three out of four Republican senators voted against a gang rape victim's right to trial. I have to choose between mildly corrupt stupid and a party that actively ignores gang rape and child sex slavery, whose brightest members are at best a match for some of the dimmer Democrats. At least if I vote democrat I can wash my hands knowing that the person I voted for has some shred of decency.
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Kite Xiroh said I have little to no real knowledge of politics, but what this says to me is 'whoever has the most money wins the election.' Would that be right, or am I missing something? Click to expand... That is essentially the truism. Whoever has the most money has the best chance the less wealthy candidate had better be DAMN good to beat relentless and only possibly-true advertising. That's how things have stood for many years now. What this ruling does, it makes it so non-human, non-voting legal entities, like corporations, no longer have legal limits on how much money they can give to their candidate. Which means the candidates most deeply in the corporation's pocket gets all the moolah. Yay, democracy?
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This isn't Democracy anymore. It's bullshit. It's advertising. We need revolution.
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The baby boomers need to die off in mass.
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Kite Xiroh said This isn't Democracy anymore. It's bullshit. It's advertising. We need revolution. Click to expand... Careful how you talk like that. You know the FBI pays to have agents join groups like parents for peace and such and monitor them for subversion. A few wrong words and you could have your phone tapped without a warrant, or be declared an enemy combatant and shipped off to Gitmo. Oh, wait, it was the previous administration that did that. It's the enemy of freedom and the American way, Barack Obama, who's overseeing the exposure of all that. What is it with these Republicans being caught out doing horrible things? It's almost as if these self-avowed patriots and good Americans... aren't what they say they are. Hmmm...
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The sad thing is, Democracy is considered the best and most 'fair' of all governments. Does anyone agree that this is not a Democracy anymore? It's some sort of sick reverse Communism with the label of Democracy protecting it. Times are changing, and our system of 'freedoms' is no longer protecting the working from the conglomerates that are paying off senators and presidential candidates. A small group of people is controlling the laws that govern 300 million plus people. That's just not right. The worst of it all is that the Government is too put in place, drenched in power, entrenched in position, and protected by the fallacy of their law to be overthrown. There is very little a group could do to cause enough upheaval to either change things, or take over and make things better. The chaos and anarchy from both would be enough to crush many liberties and lifestyles we have now, either way. My main take on this at the moment, this should be moved to the BM academy.
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Raziel99 said The sad thing is, Democracy is considered the best and most 'fair' of all governments. Does anyone agree that this is not a Democracy anymore? It's some sort of sick reverse Communism with the label of Democracy protecting it. Click to expand... Corporatism is still a form of central planning - communism at its worst - but Fox News wouldn't dare present that angle.
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Vekseid said Raziel99 said The sad thing is, Democracy is considered the best and most 'fair' of all governments. Does anyone agree that this is not a Democracy anymore? It's some sort of sick reverse Communism with the label of Democracy protecting it. Click to expand... Corporatism is still a form of central planning - communism at its worst - but Fox News wouldn't dare present that angle. Click to expand... Fox news is fucked up as it is. They deny it, saying they are 'fair and balanced,' but they are obviously conservativeRepublicans. They never have a fair argument on. But Fox news isn't our subject here. The fact that the government is allowing such a shift means that they're corrupt beyond repair. My thoughts is that the whole system should be purged of those in office and those in the current parties - anyone that has ever ran for office, supported them on national television, pretty much anyone that goes to the big parties - and have it reset with middle-class people, those that would work for the gain of the whole Country and most of working America, funded possibly by the statesnation instead of corporations.
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Sidenote America is not, and has never been, a Democracy. It's a constitutional republic. There is a large difference. To quote the Federalist Papers Essays by our founding fathers to educate the former revolutionaries why they should follow the new American Government, rather than the loose articles of confederation, Democracies have always been as violent in thier excesses as they are short in thier lives. Important? I think so, got to understand what your government is if you're going to really talk about options and what could, should, or might be done. The misuse of Democracy seems minor overall, but remember that Democracy is truly Mob Rule, we're not that bad yet, and a republic is rule by law. Given a choice between the two I would choose law over the whims of the mob.