Tuesday 17 April 2018

Secrets of a Lasting and Successful Marriage


" Let me tell you something Jerry... 
I don't care what you said about me -

But you ought to be ashamed of yourself for jumping on my wife, you're not worth being on the same platform as my wife. 

Jerry comes here with his family wealth, and his $1500 suit, and makes a lying accusation about my wife. 

My wife is a fine person, who has not done anything unethical, she has given tens of thousands of dollars worth of free time, serving our State, to do free work for The State, there is no telling what all she's done... "



Q : What about Bush's main rival... 
who do you think that's gonna be?

A : " Well, it looks like Paul Tsongas -

Who is a Greek from Massachusetts

Shorter than Dukakis 

And who is terminally ill.

He looks pretty electable.



. Jeff from Ohio asks on Facebook, 
“Trump says the campaign has changed him. When did that happen?” 

So, Mr. Trump, let me add to that. 
When you walked off that bus at age 59, were you a different man or did that behavior continue until just recently? 
And you have two minutes for this.

TRUMP: 
It was locker room talk, as I told you. That was locker room talk. 
I’m not proud of it. I am a person who has great respect for people, for my family, for the people of this country. 
And certainly, I’m not proud of it. 
But that was something that happened.

If you look at Bill Clinton, far worse. 
Mine are words, and his was action. 
His was what he’s done to women. 

There’s never been anybody in the history politics in this nation that’s been so abusive to women. 

So you can say any way you want to say it, but Bill Clinton was abusive to women.

Hillary Clinton attacked those same women and attacked them viciously. 

Four of them here tonight. 
One of the women, who is a wonderful woman, at 12 years old, was raped at 12. 

Her client she represented got him off, and she’s seen laughing on two separate occasions, laughing at the girl who was raped. 
Kathy Shelton, that young woman is here with us tonight.

So don’t tell me about words. 
I am absolutely — 
I apologize for those words. 

But it is things that people say. 
But what President Clinton did, he was impeached, he lost his license to practice law. 
He had to pay an $850,000 fine to one of the women. 
Paula Jones, who’s also here tonight.

And I will tell you that when Hillary brings up a point like that and she talks about words that I said 11 years ago, I think it’s disgraceful, and 
I think she should be ashamed of herself, if you want to know The Truth.

(APPLAUSE)

RADDATZ: 
Can we please hold the applause? Secretary Clinton, you have two minutes.


CLINTON: 
Well, first, let me start by saying that so much of what he’s just said is not right, but he gets to run his campaign any way he chooses. 

He gets to decide what he wants to talk about. 

Instead of answering people’s questions, talking about our agenda, laying out the plans that we have that we think can make a better life and a better country, that’s his choice.

When I hear something like that, I am reminded of what my friend, Michelle Obama, advised us all: 

When they go low, you go high.

(APPLAUSE) 

And, look, if this were just about one video, maybe what he’s saying tonight would be understandable, but everyone can draw their own conclusions at this point about whether or not the man in the video or the man on the stage respects women. 

But he never apologizes for anything to anyone.

 He never apologized to Mr. and Mrs. Khan, the Gold Star family whose son, Captain Khan, died in the line of duty in Iraq. 

And Donald insulted and attacked them for weeks over their religion.

He never apologized to the distinguished federal judge who was born in Indiana, but Donald said he couldn’t be trusted to be a judge because his parents were, quote, 
“Mexican.”

He never apologized to the reporter that he mimicked and mocked on national television and our children were watching. 

And he never apologized for the racist lie that President Obama was not born in the United States of America. 

He owes the President an apology, he owes our country an apology, and he needs to take responsibility for his actions and his words.

TRUMP: 
Well, you owe the president an apology, because as you know very well, your campaign, Sidney Blumenthal — he’s another real winner that you have — and he’s the one that got this started, along with your campaign manager, and they were on television just two weeks ago, she was, saying exactly that. 

So you really owe him an apology. 

You’re the one that sent the pictures around your campaign, sent the pictures around with 
President Obama in a certain garb



That was long before I was ever involved, so you actually owe an apology.

Number two, Michelle Obama. 
I’ve gotten to see the commercials that they did on you. 
And I’ve gotten to see some of the most vicious commercials I’ve ever seen of Michelle Obama talking about you, Hillary.

So, you talk about friend? 
Go back and take a look at those commercials, a race where you lost fair and square, unlike the Bernie Sanders race, where you won, but not fair and square, in my opinion. 


And all you have to do is take a look at WikiLeaks and just see what they say about Bernie Sanders and see what Deborah Wasserman Schultz had in mind, because Bernie Sanders, between super-delegates and Deborah Wasserman Schultz, he never had a chance. 

And I was so surprised to see him sign on with 
The Devil.

But when you talk about apology, I think the one that you should really be apologizing for and the thing that you should be apologizing for are the 33,000 e-mails that you deleted, and that you acid washed, and then the two boxes of e-mails and other things last week that were taken from an office and are now missing.

And I’ll tell you what. I didn’t think I’d say this, but I’m going to say it, and I hate to say it. 

But if I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a Special Prosecutor to look into your situation, because there has never been so many lies, so much deception. 

There has never been anything like it, and we’re going to have a Special Prosecutor.

When I speak, I go out and speak, the people of this country are furious. 
In my opinion, the people that have been long-term workers at the FBI are furious. 

There has never been anything like this, where e-mails — and you get a subpoena, you get a subpoena, and after getting the subpoena, you delete 33,000 e-mails, and then you acid wash them or bleach them, as you would say, very expensive process.

So we’re going to get a Special Prosecutor, and we’re going to look into it, because you know what? 

People have been — 
Their lives have been destroyed for doing one-fifth of what you’ve done
And it’s a disgrace.

And honestly, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.



Sunday 15 April 2018

The Curse : Always Read The Comments

Always Read The Comments

Because One Day They'll Be an Army 


The Blazing Man : 
See? This used to be just a hospital. 
Now it's mass production. 
The Cyber Foundries. 

Miss Demeanor : 
The whole city is a machine to turn people into Cybermen. 
What do you think? 
Exciting, isn't it? 

Watching the Cybermen getting started. 



Dr. Disco : 
They always get started. 
They happen everywhere there's people. 

Mondas, Telos, Earth, Planet 14, Marinus. 

Like sewage and smartphones and Donald Trump 
Some things are just inevitable. 



(Missy notices an aerial is pulsing out a signal

Miss Demeanor : 
Doctor. Doctor, have you done something? What's happening? 

Dr. Disco : 
People get the Cybermen wrong. 
There's no evil plan, no evil genius. 

Just parallel evolution. 

The Blazing Man : 
Doctor, what have you done? 

Dr. Disco : 
People plus technology minus humanity. 
The internet, cyberspace, Cybermen. 

Always Read The Comments

Because One Day They'll Be an Army 

Saturday 14 April 2018

Observations on Soylent Green


Erroneous vassal! the great King of kings
Hath in the tables of his law commanded
That thou shalt do no murder: and wilt thou, then,
Spurn at his edict and fulfil a man's?


Gilbert: 
[hesitating before killing Simonson
Uh... They told me to uh... 
To say that They were sorry, but that you had become... 
unreliable. 

Simonson: 
That's True. 

Gilbert: 
They can't risk, uh... catastrophe, They say. 

Simonson: 
They're right. 

Gilbert: 
Then, uh... this is Right? 

Simonson: 
No, not Right... 
Necessary. 

Gilbert: 
To who? 

Simonson: 
To... God.


Take heed; for he holds vengeance in his hands,
To hurl upon their heads that break his law.

He needs no indirect nor lawless course
To cut off those that have offended him.


Chief of Detectives Hatcher :
We're closing the Simonson case.

Det. Thorn :
The hell you say.

Chief of Detectives Hatcher :
You heard me. The Simonson case is officially closed. Felonious assault. Sign.


Det. Thorn :
Yesterday you agreed it was assassination.

Chief of Detectives Hatcher :
There's been 137 reported murders since then. And we won't solve them either.

Det. Thorn :
I'm not gonna falsify that report.

Chief of Detectives Hatcher :
Got a suspect?

Det. Thorn :
I've got leads.

This isn't somebody you scratch after 24 hours and forget.

I told you there's been a tail on me.

Something stinks here.

Chief of Detectives Hatcher :
Look. You'll sign this. And I'll bury it.

Det. Thorn :
Like hell you will.

A member of the board of the Soylent Corporation was torn apart with a meat hook!

You can't sweep that carcass under the rug.

Who bought you?



Chief of Detectives Hatcher :
You're bought when They pay you a salary.

Det. Thorn :
Who's They?

Chief of Detectives Hatcher :
High and hot
They want this case closed permanently! Their way.
Now you sign this.


Det. Thorn :
You sign it!

If my name closes this case and somebody higher and hotter wants to know why, it's my job!

Chief of Detectives Hatcher :
Sign it. 
I'll cover for you.


Det. Thorn :
I won't put my job in the line for you, Hatcher 

Not my damn job!

To be a Black Thorn is to be The Senior Partners' instrument on Earth.
Doesn't get bigger than that.

But say, my lord, it were not register'd,
Methinks The Truth should live from age to age,
As 'twere retail'd to all posterity,
Even to the general all-ending day.


Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :
My name is Paul

[ It means "small". ]

 Have I done something? 

Det. Thorn :
 No. I'm investigating the murder of Mr. William Simonson.

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :
Who do you say?

Det. Thorn :
Simonson. Quite an important man. 
A rich man. 

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :
I have no recollection.

Det. Thorn :
You talked to him. 

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :
Did I? 

 No doubt about it. 

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :
A rich man. Yes. I remember. 
We don't see rich people here anymore. 
 There isn't even enough room for the poor. 

 There's just too many. 
 Far too many. 

Det. Thorn :
Fa... 

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :
My memory's eroded. 
 Chiefly, I assign space to people who need space. 
 Do you need some space? 

Det. Thorn :
 I need to know what he said to you.

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :
 Are you sure he's dead? 

Det. Thorn :
Yes.

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :
Really dead?

Det. Thorn :
He's dead.
What did he talk to you about?

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :
Come back tomorrow. 
I'm very tired now. 

Det. Thorn :
Father.

Father. Did you hear his confession?

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :
There should be a requiem mass.... 
But there's no room.

Det. Thorn :

Should I make room?
This is very important.

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :
I can't help you.

Forgive me. It's destroying me.


Det. Thorn :
What is? 

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :
The Truth.


Det. Thorn :
The Truth Simonson told you?


Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :

All Truth. 


Det. Thorn :

What is it?
What did he confess?

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :
Sweet Jesus...




Solomon :
It's horrible.

Senior Elder T'Pau, 
Superior Head of The Supreme Exchange :
You must accept it.

Solomon :
I see the words. 
But I can't believe them.

Senior Elder T'Pau, 
Superior Head of The Supreme Exchange :
Believe.

The evidence is overwhelming.
Simonson was a member of The Board.
He learned these facts. And they shook his sanity.
The corporation knew...
...he was not reliable anymore.

They feared he might talk...

...and so he was eliminated.

Solomon :
Then why are They doing this?

Senior Elder T'Pau, 
Superior Head of The Supreme Exchange :
Because it's easier.

I think "expedient" is the word.

What we need is the proof of what they are doing...

...before we bring it to the Council of Nations.

Solomon :
Good God...

Elder :
What God. Mr. Roth?

Where will we find him?

Solomon :
Perhaps at Home.

Elder :
Yes. At Home.






Fielding :
Oh, no.
I won't hit a cop. 
Bastard.

Det. Thorn :
Yeah. I know.

 He slaps his Woman around and tosses her into the corner - Fielding comes flying across the room at him like some kind of Bruce Lee shit, kicking him in the head

Det. Thorn :
You'll get Life for that. Jerk!

Life in a waste disposal plant in a Soylent factory someplace.

Or, perhaps not.]

How about that big fat Soylent Corporation?

Do you work for them like Simonson did?

How much did they pay you for that one?

Does Soylent buy your strawberries?

Anybody tails me. Bothers me one more time...

...l'll come back here and kill you both. Got it?

Get off my back!



Solomon :
I haven't eaten like this in years.

Det. Thorn :
I never ate like this.

Solomon :
And now you know what you've been missing.
There was A World once. You punk.

Det. Thorn :
Yes. So you keep telling me.

Solomon :
I was there. I can prove it.

Det. Thorn :
I know. I know.
When you were young. 
People were better.

Solomon :
Oh, Nuts. People were always rotten.
But The World was Beautiful.




Det. Thorn :
Sol. Can you hear me?

Solomon :
Thorn

Yes.

Solomon :
Thank you for coming.

Det. Thorn :
Oh, dear God.

Solomon :
I've lived too long.

Det. Thorn :
No.

Solomon :
I love you. Thorn.

Det. Thorn :
I love you. Sol.

Solomon :
Can you see it?

Det. Thorn :
Yes.

Solomon :
Isn't it beautiful?

Det. Thorn :
Oh. Yes.

Solomon :
I told you.

How could I know?
How could I...?
How could I ever imagine?

Solomon :
Horrible.
Simonson.
Soylent.
Listen to me. Thorn.

Thorn. Listen.

Det. Thorn :
I can't hear him.
Do something. Damn it!

Yes. Sol.

........

Solomon :
You've got to prove it, Thorn.
Go to The Exchange.
Please, Thorn.

You've got to prove it. Thorn.
The Exchange.
Go to...


*****

Det. Thorn :
Hatcher...

...get to the Exchange.

You gotta tell them they're Right.

Chief of Detectives Hatcher :
But let's take care of you first.

Det. Thorn :
You don't understand.
I've got proof.
They need proof.

I've seen it. I've seen it happening.

They've gotta tell people.


Larry Gopnick :
Did you follow that?

Sy Able man :
Of coss.
Except that I know what's going on. 
How do you explain.

Larry Gopnick :
Well, it might be that, in, you know, in L'olam ha-bah -
          
Sy Able man :
Excuse me. 
Not the issue. 
In THIS World, Larry.

( He nods at the chalkboard )

I'll concede that it's subtle. 
It's clevva. 
But at The End of The Day - is it convincing?

LARRY :
Well- yes, it's convincing. 
It's a proof. 
It's mathematics.
          
Sy Ableman :
Excuse me, Larry. 
Mathematics. 
Is the Art of The Possible.

LARRY's brow furrows.