Curses! The plot is out!
Aug. 23rd, 2012 12:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
(CNN) -- An elected county judge in Texas is warning that the nation could descend into civil war if President Barack Obama is re-elected, and is calling for a trained, well-equipped force to battle the United Nations troops he says Obama would bring in.
It's funny but while I can easily think of a Second Civil War novel that used a thinly disguised Hillary Clinton, I have yet to be send one featuring Obama in an analogous role.
In this classic SF novel

The Texans are motivated mainly by being Texan; their political police come across nearly as warm and lovable as the Stasi.
(This was one of the books that made me notice how often American Vice Presidents are presented as a villains, even administrations otherwise presented sympathetically; the Texans kidnapped the President with the aid of the VP, who has an eye on the top post for himself)
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Date: 2012-08-23 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-23 05:58 pm (UTC)[*] There are only 61 hits on Google for the phrase. I think even the black helicopter people who are suddenly against CHAINS -- temporarily, I'm sure -- knows that won't fly.
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Date: 2012-08-23 07:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-23 11:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-24 03:06 am (UTC)But that might just be the effects of a stroke or something. I've missed the anti-spam challenge six (seven,eight,nine,ten, eleven [is this getting obsessive?]. twelve) times now, while I usually get it the first time.
William Hyde
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Date: 2012-08-24 12:52 pm (UTC)Recently, the goodthink machine has shrieked at Biden for using the word "chains" to describe goodthink policies to an black audience.
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Date: 2012-08-24 06:36 pm (UTC)Now that I think about it, I do recall the "chains" teapot tempest.
William Hye
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Date: 2012-08-23 06:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-23 06:14 pm (UTC)-- Steve's seeing increased support for his "watery beer causes insanity" theory.
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Date: 2012-08-23 06:57 pm (UTC)Apparently there is a paucity of original scripts out there, due to the number of remakes, sequels, prequels, rip-offs, and other derivative drek available to the movie-going public.
If Israel and Texas actually went to war, the Israelis would win, and the Texans would claim victory ever afterward.
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Date: 2012-08-23 07:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-23 07:27 pm (UTC)It was China, but the Chinese objected and they redid chunks of it
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Date: 2012-08-23 09:39 pm (UTC)Bruce
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Date: 2012-08-23 10:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-23 10:14 pm (UTC)well, "make sense" is a bit too strong, so let's say "move far too close to making sense to belong anywhere near this project"
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Date: 2012-08-24 12:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-24 02:32 am (UTC)Thin as it is, apparently it was enough to hang a game upon.
-- Steve will point out that the game wasn't terribly well received by critics and players, for what that's worth.
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Date: 2012-08-23 08:36 pm (UTC)Bruce
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Date: 2012-08-23 08:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-24 05:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-23 09:23 pm (UTC)[1]: If the general rule for collaborations where two names occur on the cover with neither one sporting an apostrophe is that the ratio of the amount of writing done is the inverse of the ratio of the font size of the names, Clancy probably wrote the entire title. And possibly the political rants mentioned above.
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Date: 2012-08-24 12:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-24 12:31 am (UTC)Idle hands are tools of the devil, or something like that.
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Date: 2012-08-24 06:10 pm (UTC)Bruce
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Date: 2012-08-24 02:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-24 04:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-24 06:14 pm (UTC)Luckily for her, any contact her world had with Earth was pre-web.
[1] Well, she does cloud delivery and distribution. The actual control is up to the local weather teams.
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Date: 2012-08-24 05:59 pm (UTC)Hell, you can't improve on Metal Wolf Chaos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Genl242_ZU8