2009 2008: LJ Year in Review

... over individuals. He opposed equal civil rights for homosexuals. He backtracked ...thing in his presidency- non-war foreign relations- ran headlong into...third , and even threatened nullification , secession or the armed overthrow of...myself debating the right of secession/nullification. Contemplating DSL - 18 replies...ones I posted) 10. Texas Secession... Growing? 9. FILK: "Doctor Number...

The shape of things to come

... a total solar eclipse on Easter Island is used by Patagonian war veteran Dafydd ap Daffyd to publicise his teachings about the coming ...state the terrorists are based in. Alaska calls a referendum on secession from the Union, with Sarah Palin saying that 'the Vice President...-time study. 2018 : I'm promoted into the Senior Civil Service at last, as Assistant Secretary in the Department for Climate ...

We Love This Country So Much We Can't Wait For It To Not Exist!

...s sole superpower will be embroiled in a civil war that will destroy it. This message has found an audience in the radical..., racial tensions and moral degradation will spark the war that leads to this civil war and subsequent splitting of the United States. These are same fears expressed at... in Houston, Panarin said Texas' talk of secession -- consisting largely of Chuck Norris' offer to ...

OOC: Long Meme is Looooong 8|

... establishing Mexico (Or New Spain), Mexican War of Independence, the Mexican Constitution of ... States in 1845, the Mexican American War, the invention of the revolver, the Civil War and seceding and reconstruction, ... Great Depression and the Dustbowl, World War II (specifically Hitler being afraid of ...was representative of the Texas pro-secession movement/nationalist movement. Despite her opposition...

GOP's Worsening Civil War Could Wreck Its Chances for 2010 Comeback

... to the nation after the secession of 16 Southern states to...had been Republican since the Civil War. Republicans now rationalize their...RIGHT-WINGERS DECLARE ALL-OUT WAR TO OUST GOP MODERATES But...their glee over this growing civil war within the Republican Party...was a Republican Party at war with itself. The seemingly popular...image problems and the looming war between ideological and pragmatic wings...

[Fic] The Burdens We Bear (3/8)

... violence, disturbing imagery, somewhat graphic discussion of childbirth, implied sex, Mpreg, Civil War Fic. Summary: Seven words to end a nation: "It wasn't ... had managed the bulk of that war well enough on his own - ..., seven of his children declared their secession. Thirty-one days after America laid .... Seventy days after America laid Kansas to rest, the Civil War began.

Snow

...respond to this statement. Really, China? Really? You're seriously going to try analogizing Tibet to the Civil War-era South? Maybe you should take a deep breath and lie down for a while. This formulation, ... always been a part of the Chinese nation. So there's an additional secession-related layer to the analogy that Qin Gang attempted to sell the foreign ...

Republicans Eateing Their Own Could Lead to Defeat in 2010

... off nothing less than a riotous and bloody national G.O.P. civil war. No matter what the results in that race on Tuesday, the ...incumbent Rick Perry, floated the possibility of secession at a teabagger rally in April and... “ruthless prosecution” of its own ideological war often mimicked the tactics of its ... devoted to curbing abortion rights, gay civil rights and even birth control. But ...

...hate machine. Heck, even though "culture war" is verifiably the worst direct treason...turn into rants about secession, the killing of civil servants and praying for...how far they can push "culture war" toward a repeat of 1861. Is the Agenda Civil War? Does that sound florid and..." population rises up and Culture War finally goes all out... do ... front lines in the modern war on terror. Even though it ...

Egon Schiele The Erotic Terrorist

... remotely strike people as the ‘nice young man from a decent civil servant family’ that I in fact essentially was. My accommodation matched ..., his work a sacred shrine.” In March 1918, The Viennese Secession placed the gallery at Schiele and his Neukunstgruppe’s disposal. Scheile ...last words (reported by his sister in law) were, “Now the war is - and I must go.” Photographs of Schiele on his death...