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Are you an orthopedic specialist, by chance? How does that sort of thing happen?

Either way, sucks about the shoes. I don't think I would want to keep a pair of shoes after that.

I can also volunteer to join the Blackbeards, but I don't have mumble yet. Will that be a problem? I do intend to get it set up eventually, as soon as I can get my hands on a cheap mic. Actually, can I just use my laptop's webcam? I cover the thing as a matter of course but it does pick up sound as well.

That's disappointing. I really should read back a few pages before excitedly linking whatever random thing I come across in the future.

Baffler didn't sign up to fight no damn dragon. Baffler can handle any dwarf who stumbles in sober, or feels belligerent about their bill, but a megabeast was never on the table.

He won't quit over this, because he's pretty sure you're not serious.

On another topic, I have given up on expanding Baffler's role for now. Any special jobs are still on the table.

Quote from: wierd on October 07, 2013, 08:09:37 pm

Because going all the way is recklessly irresponsible behavior that endangers many more people than just americans, and if either party actually believed their rhetoric about mandates to govern, they would recognize that fact.

I still don't understand what you'd have the Democrats do, considering

Quote from: SalmonGod on October 07, 2013, 08:03:46 pm

Quote from: wierd on October 07, 2013, 07:57:03 pm

There is nothing stopping the dems from drafting legislation that makes the actions of the TEA party officially illegal, with immediate and severe consequences.

I don't know why you think it would be so simple to pass such legislation, given the issue at hand is that they're being prevented from passing legislation.

I'm not a fan of either party.  But I still have to acknowledge that I've never been aware of the Democrats pulling a similar stunt, and I can see no better option for them in the given situation.

Until it is abused later. I posit that no such legislation can be written without also giving the ruling party an easy (probably not completely free) pass to jail dissenters or boot them out of office. Take... I don't know, the NSA. If one party in a fairly evenly divided legislature decided that the NSA should be completely dissolved or restructured to the point that it is no longer recognizable as the spy agency we know and love(?). The ruling party, holding the executive, is against it, but the opposition have popular support on the matter. They continue to push the issue, and they are all thrown out for obstructing the operation of government.

It's a long shot that such a situation would come about, but worth considering nonetheless. And where would such a situation leave us? Would those people's seats be up for reelection? Do they just take a time-out? Are the seats refilled by appointment? All of those have pretty bad implications and immediate consequences.

No issues jump out at me immediately, as long as you don't overfill the chamber.

My experience comes largely from water systems though, so take this with a grain of salt, or better yet, something magma safe. Gabbro, perhaps. Or mica.

Better get those emergency crops growing. Potato currency is best currency.

Dug over a vegetable patch yesterday - we'll be planting wine, though. But potatoes always remain an opportunity.

These guys are up with me.

Anywho, I still see this as a calculated, tactical brinkmanship. I don't think that they'll go all the way with this, surely they realize that a default on U.S debt would screw everyone over, up to and including themselves. The growing disquiet going on over this is just what they need though. They're hoping that it will reach such a fever pitch that the opposition will cave, because they sure look crazy enough to go through with it.

Where have we seen tactics like this before? It seems so oddly familiar...