#that or the team could split and do 50% rescue and 50% investigation | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

ynscrazylife · 3 years

Note

Is it cool if u can request a avengers x fem reader where her powers are unique and born with them and she has ice and fire powers? Like half of her body she can control ice and the other half fire? Basically hot and cold lmao? Headlamps would be nice :) maybe some romance between Natasha x reader just cuz I miss her lmao

50% ice, 50% fire, 100% smitten

Summary: Y/N is an Inhuman. Half her body controls fire and half her body controls ice. Y/N doesn’t like to use her fire side out of fear, but when she sees her crush, Natasha, in danger, she’s forced to overcome what she’s scared of.

“Everyone ready for the mission?” Steve asked the Avengers as he boarded the jet. They were all preparing to go out and kick some ass.

“Yes”’s went around.

Y/N leaned against the wall, fixing her suit. The mission was simple enough. They were infiltrating an old Hydra base. They had gotten an anonymous tip that SHIELD files had been stored there. Phil Coulson (we’re pretending that they know he’s alive) had called, asking the Avengers to investigate as the files were reportily very important for Hydra’s plans and could compromise SHIELD’s safety. Phil was too busy with other problems, so the Avengers jumped to help out in anyway they could.

However, they had to take cautions. Even though it looked like it was abandoned, they doubted that anyone would likely leave these important files without protection. Which is why Avengers were going together, not quite knowing what Hydra agents were up to now.

“All set,” Y/N said, glancing up after she finished checking that everything in her suit was good. She gave a thumbs up to Cap as she watched Clint settle himself at the pilot.

Y/N situated herself in-between Natasha and Wanda.

“You excited, little snowman?” Sam asked as he sat next to Bruce and Steve.

Y/N rolled her eyes. The team loved to come up with new nicknames for her with her powers. Humoring Sam, she waved her hand and creating a flurry of snow that floated.

Steve grinned. “You know you can’t defeat Hydra agents with a snow flurry?” He joked.

Y/N bit her lip and sent an icicle at Steve, stopping just before it impaled his nose.

“Note to self: do not piss off Y/N,” Natasha said, making her heart flutter.

Y/N glanced over at Natasha, smiling. “Clint, can you go any faster? They’re tearing into me over here!” She called.

“Hey! That’s my job!” Tony called back from beside Clint.

Wanda slung an arm around Y/N, ruffling her hair. “Just joking, little one,” she said.

“I’m older than you!” Y/N argued.

“Tomato tomato,” Wanda said.

Ten more minutes of joking around and Clint landed, a couple blocks away from the base.

“Y/N, Sam, you’re gonna go in the base from the back entrance. Nat, cover the roof. Be ready to slip inside when Bruce locates where the files are. I will wait and cover the blocks, and will come back you up. Wanda and Tony will go directly through the front entrance and then Bruce, you stay here and monitor. I’ll let you know if we need the Hulk,” Steve told everyone.

“I’m not detecting any heat signatures. It seems like no one is there - but still, be on guard,” Bruce advised everyone.

Everyone nodded and split up.

“So,” Sam said as they walked around the building. “You like Nat, don’t you?”

“What?” Y/N asked, trying to play it off with a laugh. Seeing Sam’s smirk, she gave in. “How’d you know?”

“Despite popular belief, I notice things,” Sam said.

Y/N smirked.

“You should ask her out,” Sam whispered.

Y/N pushed his shoulder jokingly.

As they got closer to the entrance, they both stopped in their tracks. About a dozen Hydra agents stood in front of them. Waiting for them.

That’s when Cap’s voice rang through.

“They masked their heat signatures. There aren’t any files. There were files here - but they’re ambushing us now to distract us and get away,” Steve’s voice rang through.

“What do we do?” Y/N asked.

“Wanda, Bruce, and Tony are gonna go after the people escaping with the files. The rest of you - fight,” Steve ordered.

With a glance at Sam, the two began.

Y/N shot icicle after icicle, trying to trap as many Hydra agents as she could. Sam was doing well, and they almost had everyone knocked out, until someone managed to knock Sam out.

“No!” Y/N yelled. She thought quickly, and saw one agent moving towards Sam. Y/N, knowing she could take on the rest, put up an ice shield around Sam’s unconscious form.

However - she quickly realized that was a distraction when an Hydra agent shot two weapons at her. One was a weapon that sent out a burning flare at her ice side, as ice and fire didn’t mix well, and one was an ice flare gun that shot at her fire side. This made Y/N scream and stumble back in pain, after securing the ice shield around Sam. It gave one of the Hydra agents with powers an opportunity to make a ton of rubble crash down.

The Hydra agents grinned as they saw the rubble cover Y/N. She was knocked out, face first into the ground, and buried. The rubble was trapping one of her arms - the arm that could control ice. The agents ran away, knowing they could go after the other Avengers and when they’d come back, she’d still be here. With their plan, no Avenger would have time to come to her rescue. They ran away.

A couple minutes later, Y/N came back to consciousness. She groaned, spitting out dirt, and yelled when she felt the pain again. Y/N saw that her fire controlling arm was freed, but her ice was trapped.

Y/N thought. She couldn’t set fire to the rubble - that would hurt her even more. She was trapped, and her comms were knocked off. Y/N looked around for anyone to help. Sam was still knocked out but . . . The roof. Natasha. She looked up, trying to find the redhead.

What she saw crushed her (pun not intended). From what Y/N could tell, Natasha was fighting off about twice the Hydra agents she and Sam had. She was confident in Natasha as she was highly trained, but if Hydra had something up their sleeve like that they did to Y/N . . .

“NO!” Y/N yelled, seeing Natasha slip off the roof and fall. A Hydra agent caught her, though, and she saw his evil smile. He was going to drop Natasha. And Natasha was gonna fall.

She wouldn’t survive that height.

Y/N saw Natasha take hold of the roof with her other hand, so she wasn’t just hanging on from the Agent. However if he pushed her off, Natasha holding the roof wouldn’t do any good.

Y/N glanced down at her freed hand. She couldn’t do it. She was too scared to use her powers. She didn’t want to. She never did. It was too dangerous, too risky . . . But now she had no choice.

“NATASHA!” Y/N yelled. The Hydra agent was too prideful just to drop her - he had to get a view snarky comments in. “HOLD ON!” Y/N pointed to Natasha’s right hand, trying to indicate that she was going to save her. The spy seemed to get the message.

Taking a breath, Y/N conjured a hall of fire - it would hurt the agent, but not too badly and threw it up at him. Natasha ducked, and it hit him. The agent flew back, and Natasha held on from the roof. She scaled the building until she found an open window, slipping through it.

A couple minutes later and Natasha was practically running towards Y/N. “Oh my god,” she said, and Y/N smiled weakly at her. Natasha immediately began getting the rubble off of her, apologizing when Y/N would gasp in pain.

Finally, Natasha got enough off that Y/N could move without pain and get up. Natasha helped Y/N stand up, and she stumbled into the spy. Without warning, Natasha picked Y/N up, carrying her birdal style.

“Natasha,” Y/N groaned, leaning her head on Natasha’s shoulder. Her left arm, the fire ice, dangled limply as did the rest of her, essentially. She just had the amount of strength able to wrap her right arm around Natasha’s neck.

“Y/N, I’m carrying you. You’re heart,” she said firmly.

“No,” Y/N said quietly. “Sam.”

Natasha turned around, seeing their teammate’s body encased in the shield. She frowned. “You’re gonna need to melt that, Y/N. I’m sorry,” she said, knowing the pain it would cause.

Y/N took some breaths and let out a small cry of pain as she just about managed to melt the ice. Her left arm fell limp again.

“Someone else from the team will get him,” Natasha said, beginning to carry Y/N back to the jet.

“Why not you, after you get me back?” Y/N asked.

“I’m staying with you. Not only did you save my life - thank you, by the way - but I care about you,” Natasha said.

When they got back to the jet, they saw that everyone else - save Sam, of course - was back.

“Oh my god,” Steve said, paling.

“A bunch of rubble fell on her. She saved my life. Someone get Sam - he’s behind the building,” Natasha explained shortly.

Clint went to go grab him while Bruce directed Natasha to the back of the jet, where a medical table and a first aid kit was. Natasha laid Y/N, who had now passed out, on the table.

“You said a lot of rubble fell on her?” Bruce asked, opening up the first aid kit.

Natasha nodded. “I don’t think it was an accident. She was trapped underneath the rubble - save her fire power arm which she used to save me,” she explained.

“Friday, can you scan Y/N and give me a list of her injuries?” Bruce asked before turning back to his friend. “Did you get hurt?”

Natasha shook her head. “Bruises, but otherwise no. Is everyone else okay?” She asked, but never took her eyes off Y/N.

Bruce nodded. “Yeah. No major injuries,” he said.

Friday’s scan came back. In short, she had a broken arm, broken ankle, a stomach wound, concussion, dislocated shoulder, and a broken thighbone. She also had many bruises and cuts which were at risk of being infected.

Bruce cursed under his breath and got to work. “This is gonna take a couple hours. You should get some rest,” he told Natasha, seeing that her concern had grown.

“No,” Natasha said.

“Would she want you watching over her?” Bruce asked.

Natasha glared at him.

The next morning, Y/N woke up. She found herself on lots of painkillers and she was lying in a bed, her own bed. Looking around, she saw Natasha sitting in an armchair, reading a book.

“You’re awake,” Natasha said with a smile, dropping her book and sitting next to Y/N. “You’re going to need a lot of rest and I’ll be your doctor. How are you feeling?” She smiled.

Instead of answering that, Y/N asked her own question. “Why do you want to take care of me so bad?”

“I owe you. You saved me.”

An eyebrow raise showed that Y/N didn’t believe her. “Please don’t lie.”

“Only cause you’re injured,” Natasha said, with a smirk. “However . . . I like you. You’re cute. And I care for you. Also . . . Steve won’t let me go after the Hydra agents who hurt you and kick their asses.”

Y/N smiled. “Well, it’s a good thing that I like you, too,” she said.

507 notes · View notes

howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 5 years

Text

Ford Greene and the Moonies

Ford Greene: Attorney at odds

By Tad Whitaker, IJ reporter January 9, 2005 Marin Independence Journal

San Anselmo resident Ford Greene sounds like a typical Marin County lawyer, what with his outspoken liberalism, scruffy hair and a white Porsche in the garage. But this self-described “cult buster” is anything but that.

Greene was in the spotlight recently for posting a large political sign on the side of his office building along Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, where commuters are faced with messages against the Iraq war and President Bush, among other things. …

But the furor surrounding the sign doesn’t compare with what’s been stirred up in Greene’s professional life: He has been prosecuted for kidnapping in Colorado and has won a landmark case before the California Supreme Court against the Unification Church that enabled former followers to sue for damages. Greene says he has de-programmed more than 100 followers —often called Moonies— of the church, which was founded in 1954 by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

Those professional chops made Greene one of six finalists for the honor of Trial Lawyer of Year in 2003 by the organization Trial Lawyers for Public Justice. But his drive stems from an experience many people would try to forget.

“I was a Moonie slave,” he says. “The Moonies’ nickname for me is a special servant of Satan.”

Greene’s “cult-busting” and colorful past, however, have turned him into a lightning rod for criticism for the organizations he targets.

“He’s a wing nut,” says Jeff Quiros, president of the Church of Scientology of San Francisco. “He really is.”

Aylesworth Crawford “Ford” Greene III, 52, comes from a family whose Ross Valley roots can be traced to the 1880s. …

Greene grew up the oldest of four privileged children who were raised around San Anselmo and Ross. The nuclear family expanded when two cousins needed a home after their mother died of cancer.

Greene’s father was a successful corporate lawyer who attended Yale University with former New York Sen. James L. Buckley, who became the young Greene’s godfather. His mother served as chairwoman of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and was on an advisory commission for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

Greene attended … The Thatcher School in Ojai, near Ventura, for high school. But he ran away during his freshman year in 1969 and came home.

“I wanted to be a hippie at Redwood with my friends,” he says.

Greene says he “terrorized” his parents while attending Redwood and ultimately graduated from Woodside Priory in Portola Valley. He briefly attended college in Southern California but left, depressed over a difficult romantic relationship.

Back in Marin, Greene bucked hay, milked cows and unclogged sewers at Straus Family Creamery before taking a backpacking trip in which he climbed 16 14,000-foot peaks in three months. At about that time, his sister Catherine, 18, disappeared.

Moonies expanding

The year was 1974 and the Rev. Moon was expanding his Unification Church in the United States. Moon, who is from South Korea, was a wealthy but controversial figure accused of brainwashing young people to support his religious organization by selling flowers among other items.

Catherine —the second youngest child and closest in nature to Greene— had joined the Unification Church and gone to a camp called New Ideal City Ranch, outside Boonville in Mendocino County. When she finally called her family, Greene says she had changed.

“It sounded like her loyalties were being split,” he says. “She sounded torn up.”

Greene traveled to the Boonville camp a few days later to confront Catherine, but it was difficult; she was surrounded by Moonies at all times. A church leader invited Greene to return the following weekend for a training session.

Greene drove home, still depressed and, he recalls, even suicidal because of a difficult relationship with his father. He decided to hear Moon speak in person at the San Francisco Opera House. Greene recalls that Moon sounded Hitler-like, “but there was a calmness afterward, and that appealed to me.”

Greene went to the training camp with two friends, but he says they were separated and escorted everywhere —including the bathroom— by at least one church member, a process he says the Moonies called love bombing. Joined by new recruits from all over the Bay Area, he attended a group session at which he explained that he’d come to rescue his sister. But then everyone turned toward him and began singing about how much they loved him.

“Holding hands and singing with 200 people felt really good to me,” he recalls. “My programming had begun.”

Greene’s friends left the camp after the weekend, but he stayed behind to listen to lectures, singing groups and discussions about personal experiences. Although images of Hitler Youth kept popping into his mind, he says church leaders poured on the love when he confronted them about the program —a strategy that helped reinforce the power structure and created self-doubt. After all, says Greene bluntly, “You’re being an a--hole to someone who’s being nice to you.”

Still unable to fully believe what he was being told —that Moon was the second coming of Christ— Greene went to a nearby creek to pray. But later that afternoon, Greene says he received an affirmation from God.

Faith begins wavering

Greene moved back to the Bay Area to live in Unification Church dorm houses in Berkeley and San Francisco, where members were expected to share toothbrushes stored in a bucket and hand over the keys to their cars. He took a job at a church-owned gas station on Market Street and, when his faith wavered, he returned to the ranch for re-education.

The re-education periods reinforced a belief that anyone against the church was Satan, he says, but it also gave him some perspective on what was happening. He remembers seeing new recruits arrive with doubts but eventually snapping under the pressure, turning their minds over to the church. It provided him with a guilty pleasure that they, too, had been unable to resist.

“That bothered me a lot,” he recalls.

It took Greene three attempts to leave the church before he was successful. In July 1975, he drove his BMW back to his parents’ house in Ross and began working with his mother, who was an outspoken critic of the Unification Church and supporter of deprogramming.

“She was a one-woman clearinghouse,” he says.

▲ Daphne Greene

Testifying before Senate

At the request of his godfather, he testified about cults at a U.S. Senate subcommittee in 1976. On that day, he says, about 50 Unification members —wearing matching blue suits with red flowers in the lapels— walked into the Senate chambers to listen.

“It was hairy,” he says.

Greene says he never worked with a deprogrammer. Using therapy, he deprogrammed himself. “It was an experience that hurt me but I was able to overcome,” he says.

Throughout his time in the Unification Church, Greene says he rarely saw Catherine. While he was working at the church-owned gas station, he says the church put her youthful good looks to work as part of a team that traveled the country raising money and bringing in new recruits.

“She could make a $1,000 a day selling flowers,” he says.

From 1976 to ’78, Greene says he deprogrammed Moonies, including the Prince of Tahiti with the cooperation of the royal family. He was even mentioned in journalist Josh Freed’s book “Moonwebs.”

One of his biggest failures, however, was an attempt to deprogram his own sister.

Greene set up a plan, using his mother as bait, to capture Catherine. Handcuffed and blindfolded, Catherine was taken by family members to a boarded-up house in Lucas Valley. But deprogramming his own sister proved harder than deprogramming strangers, with whom he could be tougher, he says.

He eventually let Catherine go after she intentionally cut her hand and had to be hospitalized. By then, Moonies were picketing his father’s law office in San Francisco and pressing the Marin County District Attorney to file kidnapping charges against the family.

No charges were ever brought against the family, but Catherine returned to the church and filed a $5.2 million lawsuit against Greene, his parents and others who helped with the abduction.

“It was horrible,” he says. “The experience is that they’re dead but you can’t put them in the ground.”

In 1977, Greene says he was hired by Colorado authorities to kidnap and deprogram a man who tried to sign over the family farm to the Unification Church. Greene worked with police officers and private investigators, but was arrested and prosecuted for kidnapping after the man ran away and returned to the church. He successfully fought the kidnapping charge because he was acting under a court order.

Off to law school

Although he never earned a bachelor’s degree, Greene was enrolled in the New College of California Law School in 1978. During that time he started getting death threats, but he was determined to go after Moon.

“This man is no different than Adolf Hitler and, as an American, I had to do something,” he says. “To play in that arena, you had to be a lawyer and I went to law school.”

After passing the California State Bar exam, Greene worked as a criminal defense attorney with San Anselmo attorney Carl Shapiro, who had developed a reputation for working with families to reclaim family members who joined cults.

With Shapiro’s help, Greene argued and won a case in 1988 before the California Supreme Court that opened the door for former Moonies to sue the Unification Church for damages and, he says, “put cult-busting on the legal map.”

In 1989, Greene says he sued the Church of Scientology on behalf of the church’s head of worldwide security and his wife. In 2002, Greene celebrated his biggest victory against Scientology, when he and two other lawyers received an $8.7 million judgment in another case.

For Greene, religious organizations must be held accountable for any socially destructive conduct that exploits the best in people. “In my book there isn’t anything worse than that,” he says.

But Scientologists say Greene’s crusade against them isn’t very effective.

One-man campaign

Quiros, of the church’s San Francisco branch, likens Greene to someone shooting Scientologists in the back with a BB gun. Greene may be a hassle, Quiros says, but he represents nothing in the grand scheme of things for an organization that has 8 million members worldwide.

“This is a one-man campaign to discredit the fastest-growing church in the world,” Quiros says.

Quiros likes to direct people to a web site — www.friendsofsananselmo.org — that seeks to discredit Greene. Posted on the site are Greene’s run-ins with the law, ranging from shoplifting to kidnapping to stalking, along with a host of other critiques.

According to internic.net, an Internet domain name information site, www.friendsofsananselmo.org is registered to Allen Long at a private postal box at 10 Liberty Ship Way in Sausalito. Long did not answer requests for an interview sent via e-mail or in a note left at the postal box.

Web site counterattack

Quiros says Scientology has nothing to do with the web site, although he appreciates what it brings to light. “That is a great summary of Ford Greene,” he says. “He’s a nut case. I’m trying to think of a better word but there isn’t one.”

Greene eagerly and openly explains every claim on the web site. He says he was guilty of shoplifting a set of sheets in college, pleaded guilty to trespassing over a dispute with a former girlfriend he handled poorly, was never charged with burglary or stalking, and a driving under the influence conviction listed on the web site is actually his father’s.

“It’s all a big smear,” he says.

▲ The mass wedding of 1,275 couples in Korea, January 1989.

Reached at a Unification Church site, Catherine —who was married during a mass wedding of 1,275 couples and is now Catherine Ono— says although Greene may continue thinking she’s brainwashed and not in control of her mind, she still cares for her brother. “To me it’s like, come on,” she says. “That’s old.”

Ono, who remains a Unification Church member, lives in Somerville, Mass., with her husband and their two daughters. The couple will celebrate their 16th wedding anniversary next week.

Ono says she didn’t see her family between 1977 and ’83 because she feared they would try to kidnap her again. She says she began seeing them again after Greene and her parents apologized —a claim Greene disputes— and visited Greene with her daughters last August.

“The aftermath was pretty devastating,” she says. “They realized they had betrayed my trust.”

But Greene says the entire family rarely speaks with Ono anymore and that he never apologized for the kidnapping, and his mother didn’t either. “Catherine may be nice, but she makes me sick,” he says with a laugh.

Although he says it was good to see her last summer, he can’t relate to her because her entire world view is defined by Moon’s ideology.

“Catherine thinks I’m Satanic at the core,” he says.

In his San Anselmo office, Greene has created a Scientology war room lined with volumes of books, stacks of promotional and instructional videos and an enormous flow chart that illustrates the command structure of Scientology. Asked whether he is just going after Scientology’s money, Greene makes no qualms about it. “I have every intention of trying,” he says.

Even though he was once a devoted member of an organization he calls a cult, Greene says he isn’t worried about surrounding himself with information about Scientology and other organizations he targets.

“I’m confident in my instincts and I trust them,” he says.

Ford Greene is featured in the book Moonwebs

The book was made into the movie, Ticket to Heaven

Suppose the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification were to take over the whole world?

Hak Ja Han’s Cheon Il Guk Constitution is troubling

“Ancestor Liberation must be done” Hak Ja Han 2015

Hak Ja Han and Sun Myung Moon and the United Nations

Moon’s ultimate truth is … absolute obedience

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Greene

#Moonies #Sun Myung Moon #Hak Ja Han #Ford Greene #FFWPU #cheon il guk constitution

1 note · View note

expatimes · 3 years

Photo

Even without the Senate, Democrats can get a lot done

Joe Biden is going to be president.

Donald Trump is not.

A huge part of America is relieved. Much of the world is relieved.

There are, of course, about 70 million Americans who are disappointed. Many of them furious. In terms of political power, they may well be represented by the senate.

There are 100 seats in the Senate. The Republicans already have 50. The Democrats have 46, plus two Independents who vote with them.

That leaves two. They will not be decided until January. They are both in Georgia. If the Republicans win even one, they control the senate. If the Democrats win both, they control the Senate because in the case of a tie, the vice-president, Kamala Harris, will get to vote.

It is reasonable to presume that if the Republicans have control they will do all they can to cripple Biden's presidency.

Mitch McConnell, who has been and will continue to be their leader, sat down with his fellow Republicans on the day Obama was being inaugurated and conspired with them to do everything possible to make him a one-term president, to oppose everything he proposed, even if they believed it was good for the country.

McConnell is the guy who would not let Obama put a justice on the Supreme Court. Which is why Trump ended up with three new Supreme Court justices.

McConnell is the guy who stopped a second rescue package from going through. Even though the nation needed it.

In sum, McConnell is very good at controlling his team. He is excellent at wielding power. No form of hypocrisy is beyond him. He is ruthless when it comes to putting his party's power ahead of patriotism.

At this point it is impossible to really predict what will happen in Georgia in January. It is, sadly, at least reasonable to expect at least one Republican to win. David Perdue needed 50 percent of the vote to avoid a run-off. He got 49.7 percent (as of an almost complete count). His opponent got 47.9 percent. While a fellow running as a Libertarian, who will not be in the run-off, got 2.3 percent. In the other race, two conservative white candidates split the Republican vote. Together they got 40 percent of the vote, while the Democrat got 32 percent.

Let us hope - for the sake of Biden and America - that the Democrats win both.

If McConnell is majority leader once again, should Democrats throw themselves down the nearest stairwell in despair?

No.

Donald Trump proved that there are lots of things that are strictly within the executive sphere.

The Justice Department to start with. A return to a belief in the rule of law. Which is very much different than the political call for "law and order."

If the House wants to return to the investigations, like Mueller's, the Impeachment issues, Trump family finances, and the like, this administration will hand over documents and not keep people from testifying. Imagine the winds of truth that could blow through the country.

A return to environmental protection as an actual US policy through the enforcement of existing rules, restoration of the Obama rules that Trump dumped, new and improved ones, and a return to the Paris Agreement on climate change. A switch from supporting carbon fuel to supporting renewable energy.

The range of executive departments is vast: Education - Betsy Devos out! Replaced with someone with an education who believes in education not privatisation. Energy - light not carbon. Health and Human Services - no longer run by a Big Pharma lobbyist. Homeland Security - willing to look at white supremacists, unwilling to put children in cages. Labor - becoming pro-union. State - restaffed, and supporting our allies. Interior - save the parks and public lands. Treasury - with a pro-people attitude. Transportation - actually building infrastructure.

Then there are the Sub-Agencies, the Independent Agencies, Boards Commissions and Committees, and the Quasi-Official Agencies. There is the CDC, CIA, FBI, the Armed forces, the Postal Service and the weather service.

There are issues surrounding labor relations, prisons, the police, civil rights, cyber security, housing, rural development, social security and border control which can be resolved solely by the executive. Gathering and publishing statistics, supporting arts and culture, encouraging all sorts of research also do not require the Senate's approval.

Foreign policy has always been considered a domain of the executive. Expect a return to supporting democracy and opposing autocracy. Reaffirming NATO. Not suspecting that the president leaned on a foreign country until his son-in-law got a loan from there. Perhaps a return to the Iran nuclear agreement.

Pundits are speculating that Biden can actually work with McConnell. After all, Biden was in the senate for 36 years. He has - everyone says - good relationships, even across party lines. He was effective there. He knows how the arcane rules and peculiar levers of power work. So there are reasons to argue that he can convince a couple of Republicans to vote with the Democrats and break the Red Wall of the Senate.

Trump was truly charismatic. This does not imply that he was good or smart or sensible. It just says that he had the ability to get people to cheer him, be devoted to him, and vote for him, while he committed a multitude of errors, each of which would have sunk anyone else. He demanded lickspittle loyalty. He was notoriously, and very publicly, vengeful. Republicans feared him and feared his voters.

Trump is gone.

Though we should note that there's already some noise about him attempting a comeback and running for president once again in 2024. However, there's a bunch of other Republicans already figuring it's their turn, including Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo, Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and quite a few more. They'll argue that Trump will have already proved he can lose, therefore, it's time for someone new. Each time the Republicans lose the presidency, there are internal reviews that say they need to broaden their base. In practice, they swing further right. So much so, that what had been the loony fringe at the start of the process becomes their center. By the time of the 2016 primaries, virtually all their candidates had gone full Tea Party. The next step - with Trump already shuffling toward it - is full Q-Anon. The other astonishing - but somehow unremarked - feature of those primaries was that whoever told the most lies rose to the top. Some of the candidates will try to compete by moving even further into Q-Anon land and telling even more falsehoods than Trump. Others will fight for a return to euphemism. A few, perhaps, toward realism, forgetting the greatest insight into American politics, as expressed by Stephen Colbert, “Facts have a liberal bias,” and that the essence of Trumpism is hatred of liberals. A Trump re-run will plunge the Republicans into a civil war. It will begin with vicious battles. If Trump wins, the remaining Republican establishment figures will follow the many who left the party this cycle. It's hard to imagine anything better for the Democrats.

Either way, it's every Republican for themselves.

Twenty-two of the senate Republicans are up for re-election in two years. Some of them in purple states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Iowa, and Florida. Will they want to run on a record of being anti-health care, anti-infrastructure, anti-help for everyone in the pandemic, and letting states and towns go bankrupt?

Democrats have not yet gotten the easy, golden staircase to liberal Nirvana. But even without the senate, there is much they can do to make the world a better place.

The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial stance.

. #world Read full article: https://expatimes.com/?p=13941&feed_id=16676

#DonaldTrump #JoeBiden #Opinions #UnitedStates #USampCanada #USElections2020

0 notes

tabletopontap · 5 years

Text

Top 30 Anticipated at Essen Spiel 2019 (#20-11)

This post picks up where my last one left off--continuing on with my #20-11 most anticipated games at Essen Spiel in Germany. Please note that all images were taken from www.boardgamegeek.com. Thanks to the people who post pictures of these games.

20. Botanists - Agie Games published this tile-laying game designed by Violaine Malié and illustrated by Pedro Codeço. It supports 2-4 players in 30-60 min. There are some unique tile placement rules in this game that I haven't seen before. It looks interesting but hard. When I read about how you can rack up a ton of negative points, I thought I might not do well at this game. I'd still give it a try, though.

19. Pirate Map - This looks like a quick family game for 2-6 players in 20 min. Probably a filler game. The publisher is Tranjis Games, the designer is Eugeni Castaño, and the artist is Pedro A. Alberto. This game sounds like a card game version of Tobago. You have to listen to the pirate captain's story, then as a group you play cards to build out the treasure map. I'm guessing that you have to play cards showing certain landmarks based on the pirate's story. This sounds like a game that might be fun for younger kids.

18. Paranormal Detectives - If Greenville 1989 can be considered the horror version of Mysterium, then this appears to be the party game version. The publisher is Lucky Duck Games, who made a big splash with Chronicles of Crime earlier this year. The designers are Szymon Maliński, Adrian Orzechowski, and Marcin Łączyński. JocArt, Mateusz Komada, and Katarzyna Kosobucka provided the artwork. This cooperative game is for 2-6 players and takes 30-50 min.

One player is the ghost, while all other players are detectives trying to figure out what happened to the ghost. The BGG describes some of the ways the ghost can interact with others: "arranging a hangman’s knot, playing chosen tarot cards, creating a word puzzle on a talking board, drawing by holding the hand of a detective…." It sounds fun, but party games tend to have a short shelf life in my household, as they can wear out their welcome quickly.

17. Gates of Delirium - Married duo Mandy and Jordan Goddard are the designers of this Cthulhu-esque game of horrors. George Cotronis is the artist and Renegade Game Studios is the publisher. In this game, 2-4 players age 14+ will spend 45 min. trying to save humanity from other-wordly monsters...or they'll help those monsters along instead, depending on how they're feeling.

This card game looks interesting to me because of the split decision making. Each round, a player will decide if everyone is sane or insane. If it's a sane round, you'll play actions on your cards to help beat the monsters. If it's an insane round, you'll play the actions on your card that directly undermine your sane side. It's a total Jekyll & Hyde! You can score points either way. I suspect the trick is knowing when to play which side to maximize victory points.

Teri Litorco (well-known for painting board game figurines) excitedly talked about this game in a YouTube video at GenCon.

16. Monster Baby Rescue - Designed by Vladimír Suchý with art by Jana Kilianová, this looks like a cute, family-weight game about raising baby mythological creatures! It's being published by both Delicious Games and Rio Grande Games. Players take tiles and follow the instructions on the tile to care for their pets. It looks like a board game version of Tamagotchi. For those unfamiliar, Tamagotchi was a digital pet you had to care for by feeding, cleaning up animal waste, etc. that was all the race in the late '90s/early 2000s. I'm expecting some fun game play from the same designer who previously brought us Underwater Cities, Last Will, and its sequel, The Prodigals Club.

15. Detective Stories: Stillsee - This game is published by IDventure and is another "escape room" style game. It's for 1-5 players age 13+ and takes 1.5-2 hours to play. It says you can play it cooperatively or competitively to see who can find the criminal first, but I'd rather just play it cooperatively. This game is app assisted and is supposedly a realistic criminal investigation game. I'm excited to try out different brands of escape games, which is why this one made my list.

14. Coralia - Produced by Huch!, designed by Michael Rieneck, and illustrated by Miguel Coimbra, this game is all about underwater exploration--a hot theme this year. Miguel's cover art does a wonderful job enticing players to dive into this deep sea adventure made for 2-4 players age 10+. Estimated play time is half an hour.

Players will roll and place dice, as well as use cards, to move their remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) through coral reefs, discovering sea animals and perhaps finding sunken treasure! The production of the components looks nice; the see-through colored dice with custom die faces and the octopus meeples help this game stand out from other aquatic themed games released this year.

13. Pocket Detective - Designed by Yury Yamshchikov, this game is brought to us by Russian publishers, Jet Games Studio and Lavka Games. It's a co-op detective game that takes 45-60 min. for 1-6 players age 10+. Based on the age group, you probably don't need to worry about a horror theme or anything too graphic. The goal is to solve the case in as few turns as possible, kind of like Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective.

12. Escape from the Asylum - Here's another Huch! game that has made my list. The designers are Martin Nedergaard Andersen, Alexander Peshkov, and Ekaterina Pluzhnikova. A big team created the art: Anastasia Durova, Dmitry Krasnov, Nadezhda Mikhailova, Pavel Korobkov, Anastasia Stupak, Maxim Suleimanov, Victoria Kochkina, and Victoria Volina-Lukian. It's a cooperative game for 1-6 players age 12+ and takes an hour to play.

As I previously mentioned, this year a few new brands of "escape room" style games were introduced. This is one of them. Based on the description at BGG, I think the twist here is that players see the events through different characters' eyes. I could be wrong about that, but the concept is intriguing. What if we all have the same goal of escaping, but every player's character has their own secret motivations for wanting to escape?

11. Decipher - Welcome to the latest word party game! The publisher is HeidelBÄR Games, the designers are Bill Eberle, Peter Olotka, and Greg Olotka, and the artist is Kwanchai Moriya. From splashy '80s aesthetics like Dinosaur Island to cute abstract characters like Kodama, Moriya's box covers really pop!

In this game, one person builds a word out of abstract letter pieces, while everyone else has to guess the word. The fewer pieces you need to guess the word, the higher your score will be. This is for 2-4 players and takes around half an hour to play.

Stay tuned for my Top 10 coming up in the next post!

#boardgames #essen

0 notes

networkingdefinition · 4 years

Text

Donate Quotes

Official Website: Donate Quotes

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push();

• A woman gave my dad $400 so we could get an apartment. We were living in a park. That’s how we got started: Four hundred bucks, and look at me. When I donate a computer to a school, I never know what’s going to come out of it. – Gilbert Arenas • Americans are known for their strength, fortitude, and generosity in times of need. We encourage people in the U.S. and everywhere to give with their hearts, reach out to these victims, and donate what they can to the relief efforts. – Michael Dell • And when those bombs went off, there were runners who, after finishing a marathon, kept running for another two miles to the hospital to donate blood. So, here’s what I know – these maniacs may have tried to make life bad for the people of Boston, but all they can ever do, is show just how good those people are. – Stephen Colbert

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'Donate', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '68', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_donate').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_donate img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); ); • Being willing to donate the taxpayers’ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is. – Thomas Sowell • Big Data allows us to see patterns we have never seen before. This will clearly show us interdependence and connections that will lead to a new way of looking at everything. It will let us see the ‘real-time’ cause and effect of our actions. What we buy, eat, donate, and throw away will be visual in a real-time map to see the ripple effect of our actions. That could only lead to mores-conscious behavior. – Tiffany Shlain • Do you know what the actual percentage of money the Clinton Foundation has raised that they donate so far to charity is? It’s like 5%. Five percent of what they have collected they have donated – and of course, nobody reports that, either. – Rush Limbaugh • Donate and do not talk about it, they say you do nothing for the society; do and talk about it, they say you seek publicity! – Amitabh Bachchan • Donate time, food, or money to organizations that fight the good fight. We can act individually for the collective good. We can all do something. – Joy Bryant • Donate to the extent that you don’t have food for yourself after feeding the needy. – Sivaji Ganesan • Don’t spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They’ll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents. – Billiam Coronel • Flint is a city of a hundred thousand that was having a rough go of it even before its water was poisoned by lead. And when the water crisis finally grabbed national headlines this winter, the Democratic presidential candidates noticed. Hillary Clinton sent senior staff to investigate and asked her supporters to donate to a fund for Flint’s kids. Bernie Sanders called on Michigan’s Republican governor, Rick Snyder, to resign. – Tamara Keith • For people who don’t know, the fundraiser works like this: people donate to Worldbuilders and they’re automatically entered to win geeky swag in the lottery. We’re just starting week two and we’re already giving away more than $40,000 of books and games. – Patrick Rothfuss • Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life. – Muhammad Ali • Go into business, sell a product, sell a service, you’re automatically a suspect to people like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton – unless you donate to them, and then you become their closest friends, and then we get cronyism. – Rush Limbaugh • He whipped the chair around and actually split one of the things in half with the impact, spilling the spray of blood that was reflective, like mercury. John bellowed, “Anyone else want to donate blood to chair-ity?” He ducked into the the door and bashed one monster right in the wig, screaming, “There’s some dessert! With a chair-y on top! – David Wong • Hey Everyone! Parts of the US are getting hit really hard and need our help. Reach Out Worldwide is proud to announce that we’ve sent out a team and are already on the ground helping out. Please help us make a bigger impact by donating to this cause at http:// donate.ROWW.org/ arkansasrelief . Our thoughts are with all of the people in this devastated region. Thank you! – Cody Walker • How come you like Josh so much anyway? All he does is sit around drinking overpriced coffee and bitching about how awful things are” “He cares about the world.” “If he cared about the world, he’d donate the ten thousand dollars he must spend on coffee every year to charity. That would be doing something. – Elizabeth Scott • I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need. – Carl Karcher • I do a fair bit for children’s charities. The big ones I support in Liverpool are Zoe’s Place Baby Hospice, and Claire House Children’s Hospice. I donate money and time but the time is what they value the most. If my inclusion at any event they’re doing, helps them to raise more money, then of course I’ll be there. – Robbie Fowler • I do not think it is selfish to want to donate a kidney “only” to family members. – Mallory Ortberg • I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks. – Aretha Franklin • I donate lots to charity. I don’t necessarily tell everybody the number or what I do. – Lindsay Davenport • I donate money to the existing foundation that funds the US Ski Team kids. – Picabo Street • I have a healthy respect for those individuals and the businesses that they represent. Their involvement only solidifies my belief that the United Way is a worthy organization to donate my time and efforts to. – Bill Vaughan • I owe my life to blood donors. I’m forever grateful to people who donate. – Niki Taylor • I think I actually made a very kind gesture out of nowhere; I decided in the middle of that match that for every ace I hit I want to donate money. I just think people should honestly look at themselves before they judge another person. I’ve never been spoiled. I want a Range Rover very bad, but I refuse to spend the money to buy a Range…The diamonds are borrowed. I won’t buy them because I’m too cheap. – Serena Williams • I think you should automatically donate your organs because that would turn the balance of organ donation in a huge way. I would donate whatever anybody would take, and I’d probably do the cremation bit. – George Clooney • I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I’ve been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the end of the year I had to pick a charity to donate my taxes to. – Lauren Conrad • I went to a pizzeria. The guy gave me the smallest slice possible. If the pizza was a pie chart with what would you do if you found a million dollars, he gave me the “Donate it to charity” slice. “I’d like to exchange this for the ‘Keep it!'” – Mitch Hedberg • I wondered if it was possible to donate my body to science before I was actually dead. I wondered if a disease were to be named after me what the symptoms would be. – Miriam Toews • I work with a charity called Donate My Dress. It’s got chapters all over the country where you can donate special-occasion dresses. Prom is a big deal when you’re 15 years old, and it enables girls who don’t have the money to come in and choose something special. – Ashley Greene • I wouldn’t want to donate my body for scientific study. – Patricia Cornwell • I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware. – Joan Rivers • If it feels right to recycle our waste or purchase solar panels for our house or rescue an animal or adopt a child or stop someone from hurting another or donate our time, money, or goods to charity, then do it. – Bryan Kest • If I’ve learned anything in the more than 50 years that I’ve led MDA, it’s that the generosity of the American people knows no bounds. I’m sure that with their fellow citizens in such dire need, they’ll dig deep and do everything they can to help. I’m hopeful that many people will be willing to make two phone calls and donate to both causes. – Jerry Lewis • If someone does not have a specific charity they would like to donate to, that’s OK. An undesignated donation would be split up evenly amongst all the charities supported by the Annapolis Area Complex. – Derren Brown • If something is important enough to you that you feel the urge to donate your money or time to it, I think it’s best to try to express that form of giving through your career, not just as something you do on the side. If you enjoy your volunteering and charitable activities more than your career, it means your career is in serious need of an upgrade. In my opinion your career should be your best outlet for giving. – Steve Pavlina • If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent. – Carl Karcher • If you don’t donate to Obama and you’re a major corporation like Big Oil, then they’re gonna blame you for climate change, destroying the planet and they’re gonna get everybody turned against you and hating your guts and so forth, and that’s how they operate. That’s not how Trump operates. That’s not how Mike Pence operates. They understand the simple mathematics of economics. – Rush Limbaugh • If you take all the food aid, America is by far the most generous country. If you take the direct aid, we’re very generous. But when you add on our private contributions – see, our tax system encourages private citizens to donate to organisations that, for example, help the folks in Africa. And when you take the combined effort of US taxpayers’ money plus US citizens’ donations, we’re very generous. And we’ll do more. – George W. Bush • I’ll go through all of [12 steps for people who say are traumatized by the election], but a sample: Volunteer to fight Islamaphobia. Join the ACLU. Donate to Planned Parenthood. Take down sexism and misogyny. Sort of all the stations of the cross of liberalism. Sort of all the stations of the cross of liberalism. – Tucker Carlson • I’ll tell ya, my wife and I, we don’t think alike. She donates money to the homeless, and I donate money to the topless! – Rodney Dangerfield • I’m a good son, a good father, a good husband – I’ve been married to the same woman for 30 years. I’m a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, ‘You know, that’s part of history.’ – Samuel L. Jackson • I’m blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl’s eye and a 14 year-old boy’s eye. I’ve been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can. – Mandy Patinkin • Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause – and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives. Where would you spend it? – Bill Gates • In Japan, it’s strange to openly take credit for giving to charity or even to donate publicly. – Robert Paul Weston • It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. – Ayn Rand • It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors. – Vic Snyder • It is worthwhile to engage in something that is close to one’s heart. I had a scholarship. So if I donate money to give brilliant Chinese students an opportunity to study abroad, then this embodies everything I believe in: education, globalization, social mobility. I am an example of social mobility. – Zhang Xin • It’s easy to run to others. It’s so hard to stand on one’s own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can’t fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It’s easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It’s simple to seek substitutes for competence–such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence. – Ayn Rand • It’s one thing to donate money. It’s a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money. – Liya Kebede • Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to The Smithsonian. Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn’t make his records if you had a hundred tracks today. – Bob Dylan • Joe Lieberman frightens me. Why should we, an Hollywood voter, donate money to a man who threatens our creative freedom, our freedom of expression. – Joe Eszterhas • Ladies, you may not realize this, understand this, or even believe this, but everything else we do is ultimately for you. Men don’t do anything-create art, build businesses, donate to charity, invent things, or do anything noteworthy-for any reason other than to impress women, and thus get them to have sex with us. If women didn’t exist, we’d still just be naked grunting apes living in caves. In a very real way, pussy is the key to human civilization. You don’t have to like it, but it’s a fact; if you understand it, you understand men. – Tucker Max • Less mess, less stress. That’s my rule! If you don’t stay on top of decluttering, it can get out of control. I maintain as much as possible. I’ll do seasonal edits and decide what we can toss or donate. If we don’t love it, need it or haven’t used it in the past year, it’s gone. – Molly Sims • Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms. – Machado de Assis • Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that he will donate $45 billion of his wealth to philanthropy. Two years ago, my husband and I decided to endow $100 million to set up the SOHO China Scholars. This program will give financial aid to Chinese students so they can attend the best universities in the world. – Zhang Xin • Maybe instead of buying myself another Barbie, I could donate that to the Kmart Wishing Tree. – Hamish Blake • Mitt Romney has a new fundraising gimmick. If you donate $3 or more to his campaign, your name will be entered into a drawing to win a dinner with Mitt Romney and Donald Trump. If you donate more than $10, you get to sit at a different table. – Jay Leno • My mother always told me if I really didn’t wan to do something, if I was really tired, but if I had helped someone and I really went out of my way for them but I asked nothing for it, that I should donate my energy to the souls in purgatory-meaning that to give my goodness to those who are trapped. This is purgatory/limbo. This is a very Catholic thing that very few people really understand. – Peter Steele • No. But it’s like the argument `don’t donate to third-world countries because the money mightn’t get to them.’ People only say that because it makes them feel better about the fact that they do nothing. – Melina Marchetta • Of all the things that it is possible to donate, to donate your own body is infinitely more worthwhile. – William Jones • Okay, God, I thought. Get me out of this and I’ll stop my half-assed church-going ways. You got me past a pack of Strigoi tonight. I mean, trapping that one between the doors really shouldn’t have worked, so clearly you’re on board. Let me get out of here, and I’ll…I don’t know. Donate Adrian’s money to the poor. Get baptized. Join a convent. Well, no. Not that last one. – Richelle Mead • One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty rather than to him, a creature who is merely its symptom. – Mohsin Hamid • People are going to have a good time, you know. One can go have a good time at these big openings in museums. And people go to have a good time. But the thing has another purpose.In the case of museums, it’s always got to do with money, people who donate and things like that. And I believe a certain kind of interest has to be demonstrated. – Garry Winogrand • People get together and they donate to organizations so that a pile of money can be used to create a message that can be broadcast en masse as part of the a political campaign. They are the lifeblood of Hillary Clinton campaign, the banks and all these big time rich people from Hollywood and Silicon Valley are the mother’s milk of her campaign. They are the money. She just doesn’t want Donald Trump to have it or any other Republican to have it or any average citizen to be able to bundle his money with other people’s money and create an ad or a campaign. – Rush Limbaugh • People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes. – Thomas Sowell • Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the wrong ways. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Maybe you don’t want to deal with (marching), the permanent marker and poster board. But try something else. Carry someone’s groceries. Chat with the custodian in your office building. Donate blood. Live in Rwanda for a year. Write letters to the Department of Buildings. Learn to knit. It is only going to get better from here on out. – Sufjan Stevens • Presumed consent preserves freedom of choice, but it is different from explicit consent because it shifts the default rule. Under this policy, all citizens would be presumed to be consenting donors, but they would have the opportunity to register their unwillingness to donate. – Cass Sunstein • Scott has to be one of the most talented artists I’ve ever seen. He really captures his subjects in a unique way. He is extremely generous as well. How many artists are willing to donate some of their best works to charity? The Texas Sports Hall of Fame has benefited greatly from Medlock’s donated paintings, which are the cornerstones of our auction! – Bob Lilly • Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence – neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish – it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children’s hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe. – Maya Angelou • Sometimes when I’m swimming, I think that maybe someday I’ll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I’ll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display. – David Duchovny • That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well. – John D. Rockefeller • The Clinton Foundation does nothing but donate to charities.” They can’t find any evidence that what Schweizer has written about the Clintons and their foundation and the fund-raising and the getting paid for speeches is wrong. They can’t find anything where he’s wrong. The book has not been “discredited.” So [Donald] Trump delivers this massive speech. It hit home run after home run after home run. – Rush Limbaugh • The great thing is these days I no longer have to work for a living and that all of the things that I’m able to do where money is paid as compensation for whatever it be, I’m able to donate all of that to charity. That’s a wonderful position to find yourself in at the latest stages of your life and I’m proud to have walked the path that I have and I’m proud to be able to continue working and to be able to give away what I earn to some very good causes here in the Southwest. – Robin Leach • The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort of story unit. They all should be keenly interested in the picture. No one in person should donate to an extent where he would keep the others from entering into the production and freely expressing themselves. – Walt Disney • The Oscars is the one night of the year when you can see all your favorite stars without having to donate any money to the Democratic Party – Jon Stewart • The Pacifica Network is a vital cornerstone of our independent media landscape that depends on your financial support. Please donate today to safeguard the future of listener-powered community radio. – Amy Goodman • The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won’t, ultimately, be very appealing. If you are inclined to donate yourself to science, you should not let images of dissection or dismemberment put you off. They are no more or less gruesome, in my opinion, than ordinary decay or the sewing shut of your jaws via your nostrils for a funeral viewing. – Mary Roach • The shape I’m in, I could donate my body to science fiction. – Rodney Dangerfield • There are lots of issues more important than where billionaires donate their money. – Malcolm Gladwell • There can be no clearer indication of how undemocratic the way we finance campaigns is than the fact that only one-quarter of 1% donate $200 or more, and only one-tenth of 1% gives $1,000 or more. – Arianna Huffington • There could be a powerful international women’s rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women. – Nicholas D. Kristof • They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords. – Franz Grillparzer • To be able to donate money to effect change is extremely exciting. I think I’m very determined and persistent. All the things that you need to deliver a successful business and I think these qualities will be useful in the campaign with the Animal Justice Fund. – Jan Cameron • To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There’s a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage. – Henry Rollins • Tom [Cargil]s suggestion with a further idea: Propsers of new [C++] features should be required to donate a kidney. That would – Jim [Waldo] pointed out – make people think hard before proposing, and even people without any sense would propose at most two extensions. – Bjarne Stroustrup • URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages. – Ziggy Marley • We cannot wait for others to make a difference, we have to be the change ourselves. To be a part of the making of yet another cancer hospital is a blessing in itself.’ Watch me live on ARY Digital and donate to Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Peshawar as much as you can. – Hadiqa Kiani • We must “Bring Back Our Girls” and support Nigerians working every day to create change. Please donate now to support Nigerian organizations educating and standing up for girls – Malala Yousafzai • We’re raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it’s most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are. – Faith Hill • What took you so long?” Nash asked, as he slid into the passenger seat and pulled the door closed. “I stopped to donate all your underwear to the homeless. You’re gonna wanna take care of those tighty whities—they’re all you’ve got left.” He leaned against the door, either too tired or too drunk to sit up. “And to think, most people don’t understand your sense of humor.” “Fools, all of them. – Rachel Vincent • When Al Gore picked Joe Lieberman to be his running mate in the 2000 presidential campaign, Eszterhas wrote “Joe Lieberman frightens me. Why should we, an Hollywood voter, donate money to a man who threatens our creative freedom, our freedom of expression.” – David Shuster • When the Haiti earthquake happened, I registered with UNICEF to set up an account, and posted to Twitter for people to donate to it. In a matter of a couple of hours, $30,000 had been donated. That, to me, was eye-opening. – Misha Collins • Whenever I donate a hunting trip for the Children’s Leukemia Foundation, Ronald McDonald Cancer House, all these children’s charities, I offer the anti-hunters an opportunity: if you donate more to the children’s charity than the hunters donate we won’t go hunting. – Ted Nugent • You can give your Social Security check to any organization, public or private, or to individuals. You can donate it to your favorite political party. You can give the funds to a student scholarship – for your grandchildren, for example – or to somebody who has a medical need. Or you can invest your government check in free enterprise. – Mark Skousen • You don’t have to donate money, it can be clothes, or books, or mediavl supplies. So there’s so much that can be done [for refugees], the most difficult thing is that first step that decision to do something. – Khaled Hosseini • You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There’s another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity. – Bill Gates

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'a', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '4', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_a').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_a img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); );

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'e', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '4', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_e').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_e img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); );

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'i', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '4', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_i').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_i img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); );

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'o', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '4', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_o').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_o img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); );

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'u', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '4', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_u').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_u img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); );

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'y', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '4', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_y').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_y img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); );

0 notes

equitiesstocks · 4 years

Text

Donate Quotes

Official Website: Donate Quotes

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push();

0 notes

whittlebaggett8 · 5 years

Text

Who Was Behind the Raid on North Korea’s Spanish Embassy?

The 10 folks who allegedly raided the North Korean Embassy in Madrid last month belong to a mysterious dissident business that models alone as a govt-in-exile dedicated to toppling the ruling Kim spouse and children dynasty in North Korea.

The leader of the alleged burglars seems to be a Yale-educated human rights activist who was after jailed in China while attempting to rescue North Korean defectors dwelling in hiding, according to activists and defectors.

Information have started trickling out about the raid after a Spanish decide lifted a secrecy purchase Tuesday and said an investigation of what transpired on February 22 uncovered proof that “a felony organization” shackled and gagged embassy staff before escaping with personal computers, challenging drives, and files. A U.S. formal reported the team is named Cheollima Civil Protection, a very little-regarded group that recently termed for intercontinental solidarity in the combat versus dictatorship in North Korea.

Savoring this posting? Simply click below to subscribe for comprehensive accessibility. Just $5 a month.

What Is Cheollima Civil Defense?

Aspects about the generation of the Cheollima Civil Defense team are hazy. The term “Cheollima” — spelled “Chollima” in the North — refers to a mythical winged horse that the authorities frequently takes advantage of in its propaganda.

In March 2017 the team reported it had organized the escape of Kim Han Sol, the son of Kim Jong Nam, the 50 %-brother of North Korean chief Kim Jong Un who was assassinated at a Malaysian airport before that calendar year.

A gentleman declaring to be Kim Han Sol appeared in a YouTube video at the time and claimed he was securely with his mother and sister.

“My name is Kim Han Sol from North Korea, component of the Kim loved ones,” the gentleman claimed in English in the 40-second video clip clip. “My father has been killed a handful of days back.”

Lately the Cheollima Civil Defense group declared on what seems to be its web page the establishment of “Free Joseon,” which it explained as “a provisional government” that would combat in opposition to “the prison incumbents of the north.” The Joseon (or Choson) Dynasty ruled the Korean Peninsula for much more than 500 a long time until finally 1910, when Japan colonized Korea, which was later on divided at the stop of Globe War II.

The team also not long ago posted a movie showing an unidentified man destroying glass-encased portraits of North Korea’s two late leaders. South Korean media described that the team was driving the composing of “Let’s topple Kim Jong Un,” the recent North Korean leader, on the wall of the North Korean Embassy in Malaysia.

After the Spanish decide released documents about the February 22 incident, the Cheollima web page reported it experienced been responding to an urgent scenario at the embassy and was invited on to the property, and that “no just one was gagged or beaten.” The team claimed there ended up “no other governments associated with or aware of our activity right until immediately after the occasion.”

The Spanish court docket report mentioned the intruders urged North Korea’s only accredited diplomat in Spain, So Yun Sok, to defect.

The Cheollima web site explained the group shared “certain data of great potential value” with the FBI, under mutually agreed conditions of confidentiality.

The FBI explained its normal practice is to neither verify nor deny the existence of investigations.

Some media outlets documented that several participants in the split-in have ties to the U.S. Central Intelligence Company. Writing for NK Information, North Korea skilled Andrei Lankov observed that the embassy in Madrid could have been of particular interest for intelligence organizations for the reason that “until late 2017 the North Korean embassy in Spain was headed by Kim Hyok Chol, a North Korean diplomat who since early 2019 has been in demand of negotiations with the U.S. on … nuclear troubles.”

If Cheollima was at the rear of the embassy crack-in, it implies the involvement of North Korean defectors who have working experience working for North Korea’s military or protection authorities, claimed Nam Sung Wook, a previous president of the Institute for Countrywide Security System, a assume tank affiliated with South Korea’s principal spy agency.

“There are several youthful North Korean gentlemen who come to the South with a lot more than 10 several years of armed service expertise,” reported Nam, who now teaches at Korea University in South Korea. “People would be surprised at what they are capable of undertaking, and they are not always getting closely viewed by the South Korean federal government.”

The Alleged Leader

A Spanish court docket document determined the leader of the team that entered the embassy as Adrian Hong Chang.

This is likely to be Adrian Hong, who in 2005 co-established Liberty in North Korea (Hyperlink), an intercontinental activist group devoted to rescuing North Korean refugees, according to North Korean defectors and activists who spoke with The Related Press.

Hannah Music, CEO of Hyperlink, mentioned Hong has experienced no involvement with the organization for more than 10 several years. “We have no information of his new things to do,” Tune explained.

The Spanish choose, Jose de la Mata, explained Adrian Hong Chang as a Mexican national and resident of the United States. In accordance to the Spanish court docket report, the guy flew to the United States on February 23, received in contact with the FBI, and available to share content and videos. The report did not say what style of info the things contained or whether the FBI recognized the provide.

An on-line concept by AP to a confirmed Twitter account joined to activist Adrian Hong was not quickly answered.

Hong is recognized for his operate assisting North Koreans flee their homeland and resettle in South Korea and in other places. Backlink stated it has served additional than 1,000 North Koreans attain safety. Fellow activists and North Korean defectors claimed Hong was detained in China briefly in the 2000s due to the fact of his operate.

Kang Chol-hwan, a outstanding North Korean defector-turned-activist, said he was shut to Hong and helped him with Link.

Kang, an ex-inmate of North Korea’s notorious Yodok jail camp, explained Hong turned passionate about North Korean human rights just after reading through his detention memoir. He stated Hong frequented Seoul and rallied in opposition to what he believed were pro-North Korea sympathizers and individuals silent on North Korean human legal rights issues.

Kang, who stated he past saw Hong about five years in the past, stated Hong wished to “muster anti-federal government forces [in North Korea] and bring down North Korea from the within.” Kang reported Hong even went to Libya to analyze the tumble of dictator Muammar Gaddafi so he could investigate means to topple the Kim govt.

Kang believes Hong heads the complete Cheollima team.

“He has good capacity for corporation since of his expertise setting up Backlink,” Kang reported. “He’s a quite intelligent dude.”

Fellow defector-turned-activist Heu Kang Il, who satisfied Hong all-around 2005, recalled him as a “passionate younger man.”

Testifying just before the Canadian Senate in 2016, Hong said: “North Korea is not a normal country with the authorities in search of to serve and safeguard its citizens. It is a brutal totalitarian routine, ruled by a royal loved ones and a class of vassals, both of those in tenuous concert with a person one more. It does not care for the welfare of its persons.”

In an op-ed for The Christian Science Watch in 2014, Hong mentioned the intercontinental neighborhood ought to aid “efforts to improve significant opposition and civil culture in the state, schooling exiles to just one working day believe management positions, educating younger refugees, and producing a lot more sturdy courses to assistance defectors adjust to everyday living on the outside the house.”

“A course of Korean technocrats will have to be able of stabilizing and rebuilding on a nationwide scale,” Hong wrote.

By Kim Tong-hyung and Hyung-jin Kim for The Related Press with extra reporting by The Diplomat. Connected Press writer Aritz Parra in Madrid contributed to this report.

The post Who Was Behind the Raid on North Korea’s Spanish Embassy? appeared first on Defence Online.

from WordPress https://defenceonline.com/2019/03/27/who-was-behind-the-raid-on-north-koreas-spanish-embassy/

#Adrian Hong #Cheollima Civil Defense #North Korea embassy attack #North Korea human rights #North Ko

0 notes

ramon-salamander · 6 years

Text

The Timeline

NOTE: Dates are subjective depending on what others think, but are canon as far as stuff on this blog is concerned. Some are also approximations from given information, and what is the Mun's own headcanon. She is also working under the assumption most everyone reading this has at least a basic understanding of The Enemy of the World's plotline, and so she will try to keep that part of the timeline as brief as possible.

NOTE 2: Mun has also tried her best to list any events that should be notable and important and not just completely random (otherwise there would be plenty of useless information here).

NOTE 3: Some dates are very intentional, but also serve mostly to giggle at them.

AUGUST 13, 1875: Eztli Pérez, the second son of a corrupted business owner, is born in Progreso.

JUNE 25, 1894: Eztli is reported missing by his two siblings, while his father seems indifferent to the situation.

MARCH 28, 1895: Enough evidence is amounted against Mr. Pérez to find him responsible for his son's disappearance. However, Eztli is never found.

MARCH 25, 1982: Ramón Salamander is born in Merída.

JULY 1986: Ramón falls severely ill during a family trip. Eztli awakens within Ramón's conscious in this time period as well, but it is debatable if the illness caused the awakening or vice versa.

OCTOBER 1986: Ramón becomes aware of Eztli's presence within his mind. The being terrifies him, usually to tears, and it takes all Ramón has to not let Eztli get to him too bad.

MARCH 1988: Ramón, tired of Eztli's terrorizing, informs his parents, who dismiss his claims as him just having an over-active imagination. Eztli somehow manages to convince Ramón of this as well, and the child does his best to ignore the entity.

DECEMBER 1991: A noise disturbs the household in the night. Ramón investigates, only to find his father standing over his mother's body. His father turns on him for discovering the sight and Eztli, experiencing deja vu, takes over and fights back in the boy's stead, ultimately disposing of Mr. Salamander. Eztli uses his presence to suppress Ramón's memory of the night, and thus hides the truth from him for years to come.

FEBRUARY to JULY 2010: Ramón moves to England. Somewhere in this period, he begins work on developing the SunStore, and encounters Giles Kent in a pub in Sussex. Kent fills his head with talk of world domination, of stomping out those who had ever believed he was meant for nothing but failure and dismay. Deep in Ramón's conscious, having been silent for many years, Eztli stirs and begins to form a plan and slowly begins taking control.

DECEMBER 23, 2020: Ramón begins showing the SunStore to various corporations, hoping for a bite. He is unaware at this point that at least that 50% of his actions are not actually his own.

FEBRUARY 2025: The work on the underground shelter concludes, and Giles Kent begins the 'endurance tests'. Ramón, though unaware that he is fully under Eztli's control, arrives after Kent leaves to check something above ground, beginning the whole panic about the 'nuclear war' above ground.

NOVEMBER 23, 2025: The SunStore officially launches, to worldwide satisfaction and acclaim.

2025-2026: Ramón lets the success gained from the SunStore get to his head, and Eztli seizes the opportunity to take full control, subduing Ramón's conscious to the point he can do nothing but watch what Eztli does as an outsider looking in. It's also in this timeframe that Eztli decides that his host's last name is ironic---an old legend does tell, after all, of a lizard that could live in fire---and so prefers to be called Salamander, rather than being addressed as Ramón's name. Somewhere in this timeframe, Kent also becomes Security Commissioner for the North African and European zones.

JULY 2026 to SEPTEMBER 2028: Mikhail Assevski, Lars Helvig, John Freremont, and several others die under mysterious circumstances after meeting with either Salamander or his deputy Theodore Benik.

MARCH 2029: Salamander turns around whatever 'evidence' Kent holds on him to make it seem like Kent is the dangerous one, and so Kent is discredited, vowing revenge.

MAY 2029: Donald Bruce is appointed World Security Controller. Around this same time, Jean Ferrier disappears, also after having met with Salamander, and his daughter Astrid teams up with Giles Kent with the intention of exposing Salamander for his crimes. Little does she realize the truth of what happened between Kent and Salamander, and how angry Kent is because of it...

JANUARY 29, 2030: The Second Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria land on a beach in Australia, and are hunted down due to the Doctor's shocking physical resemblance to Salamander. They are rescued by Astrid, who takes them to see Kent, and the two plead for the group's help in bringing Salamander down. They reluctantly agree, and Jamie and Victoria head to the Central European Zone to assist Astrid while the Doctor stays with Kent. Things do not go as planned, and both Alexander Denes (the zone’s controller and Salamander's next target) and his deputy Nicholas Fedorin die.

JANUARY 30, 2030: Salamander arrives back in Australia with Jamie and Victoria as prisoners, none too pleased at what having a doppelgänger on the loose can mean. (Ramón also begins to fight against Salamander's control over him much fiercer than before, seeing the demon's distraction as an opportunity; it's only when Salamander's food taster Fariah Neguib dies in the effort to catch Kent, Astrid, and the Doctor that he begins to gradually succeed, and even manages to break through momentarily.) He returns to the people in the underground shelter, only to eventually be nearly caught in a web of lies when Patrick Swann finds a piece of newspaper that untangles the web. Salamander disposes of him and hides in the labyrinth of tunnels as the Doctor tries to help show Bruce what is going on.

JANUARY 31, 2030: Astrid finds Swann, and subsequently the shelter. Kent ultimately breaks into Salamander's sanctum and, after exposing his true intentions to the Doctor and Astrid (as well as Colin Redmayne and Mary Smith, two people from the shelter, and inadvertently Bruce), escapes into the tunnels as well, where Salamander confronts and shoots him. Kent, weak and dying, flees to where they had years earlier rigged explosives and sets them off, dying in the process. Salamander somehow manages to make it out barely alive but heavily injured. He makes it to the TARDIS where Jamie, thinking it was the Doctor, brings him inside, but his cover becomes blown when he motions for Jamie to start the machine. The Doctor appears, and a fight ensues that ends with the TARDIS taking off with her doors open, Salamander being cast out into the Time Vortex in the process.

WARNING: It is at this point that a timeline split occurs. Timeline Split 1 is the blog's main canon, while Timeline Split 2 is an alternate canon. This is done so we could still fit The Heralds of Destruction into this fustercluck of a blog, and still have fun in the process. Both splits, however, share one common factor: Ramón and Salamander are merged as one being until a year after the events described, but will be referred to as the latter for simplicity's sake.

TIMELINE SPLIT 1

????: Salamander actually dies within the Vortex as the result of a combination of his injuries and the pain the Vortex causes. He is ultimately found by the Horror, and Father Kreiner takes him to use as a guinea pig for experiments. Somehow, being taken into the group's base revives him, and he is horrified at what he sees being done to him. Salamander suffers through a year of torture thanks to Father Kreiner, and the experience ultimately breaks him to the point that when he gets out after roughly one year when going by a biological clock, he is willing to do whatever it takes to not have to go back for any period of time, even becoming repentant.

TIMELINE SPLIT 2

FEBRUARY 19??: Salamander is sent on the same course that the TARDIS was, and lands not long after our friends do in England during the Great Intelligence's invasion. He sets about doing what he can using only what is in his pockets, and thanks to some very questionable decisions this Mun still cannot quite grasp, is able to get rich quick off of his technology.

19??: At some point, he learns the Doctor, living under a new face, is under the protection of UNIT and plants devices undetectable to most to spy on him. His nanomachines begin to cause mayhem, and he disguises himself as the Doctor who resembles him, in order to get closer to how the TARDIS functions as a time machine. he succeeds, leaving them behind under the guise of the "Brigadier" (really the Master in disguise) having to just trust him. Things escalate, and the Doctor eventually realizes what is going on. UNIT, along with the Master, head to the corporation Salamander works with, and try to infiltrate, only to arrive just slightly too late. Salamander flips some stuff and off they go through the Vortex.

1868: Salamander escapes UNIT's clutches thanks to the nanomachines. He sets off to the House of Parliament, intending on convincing them to let him usher in a new age of technology. UNIT arrives right before he can succeed, and a fight ensues once more. (The Mun still thinks Brig should have shot him in the ass.) Eventually the Doctor succeeds in jamming the nanomachines and Salamander, in his frustration, attempts to choke him. It doesn't work out too well, and the Doctor hit s a pressure point in his neck that knocks him out.

19??: Salamander ultimately escapes after utilizing a few of the nanomachines that were not confiscated.

#the timeline #ooc #muse stuff #hopefully this helps explain some stuff #forgive me for what happens between meeting kent and teotw #i had very little information to work with and it's not something i've specifically thought about before

0 notes