Pub Months and Political Landscape Changes
Jul. 1st, 2005 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanYes, it is, officially, the Month of Pub for Curse the Dark Wheeee! Two weeks of selling-time before the Potter jugguarnaut comes through and flattens us all in her wake...
In honor of that,
Going back to her office, she pulled the file she had started on Rosen and pulled the blueprints from it. Her target hadn’t left the city yet, so the site was still live. A popular apartment building, in the middle of a thriving, upper-class, and well-policed neighborhood, housing a Talent who was aware that she owned something under contention and liable to be stolen.
Wren could practically feel herself start to salivate when she got a faint mental ping. Was it possible, she wondered irritably, to get an unlisted brainwave pattern?
What? she asked, not bothering to mask her emotions.
Then the message came through, and she sighed, and started packing up the files again.
In other items of more widespread interest, newsflash reported that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, first woman on U.S. Supreme Court, is retiring. So we're going to have two vacancies for Shrub to fill. Lovely.
In honor of that,
Going back to her office, she pulled the file she had started on Rosen and pulled the blueprints from it. Her target hadn’t left the city yet, so the site was still live. A popular apartment building, in the middle of a thriving, upper-class, and well-policed neighborhood, housing a Talent who was aware that she owned something under contention and liable to be stolen.
Wren could practically feel herself start to salivate when she got a faint mental ping. Was it possible, she wondered irritably, to get an unlisted brainwave pattern?
What? she asked, not bothering to mask her emotions.
Then the message came through, and she sighed, and started packing up the files again.
In other items of more widespread interest, newsflash reported that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, first woman on U.S. Supreme Court, is retiring. So we're going to have two vacancies for Shrub to fill. Lovely.
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Date: 2005-07-01 03:02 pm (UTC)Re Supreme Court: Crap.
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Date: 2005-07-01 03:09 pm (UTC)Yay on CTD! can't wait to get my greedy hands on it.
In the words of the snippet hounds, "Arrrroo!" another story I'll be looking forward to reading.
and as to Justice O'Connor:
Shat!
Well maybe folks will wake up, vote in a blue congress, that will be willing to vote down the worthless scum that will be appointed.
The only other hope is that many Justices soon realize that there's nothing that can be done to them once their in and turn out to be a lot different then the folks that appointed them expected.
Or was that just a wishful dream?
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Date: 2005-07-01 03:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-01 05:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-01 05:37 pm (UTC)I just called one senator's office, and will be calling the other after I get the phone number for an office.
http://kennedy.senate.gov/~kennedy/statements/06/05/2005630707.html
"June 30, 2005
"KENNEDY RESPONDS TO FRIST ON SUPREME COURT NOMINATION PROCESS
....
"Even the President has said -- once -- that he would consult with Senators on judicial nominations, and I urge him to do so. But as yet there has been no meaningful consultation with the Senate....
"White House officials made time to meet last week with prominent outside allies on the right, who are so sure that the President will nominate a non-consensus candidate, that they have put an $18 million war-chest in place to defend that nominee. Their advice to the President was clear — they would consent to and support any right-wing judge he selects for the High Court. No wonder he likes to get their advice and consent!"
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Date: 2005-07-01 06:28 pm (UTC)PS--Curse the Dark is very nicely done.
CTD
Date: 2005-07-02 03:05 am (UTC)4 hours later I finally got to sleep because I was done. I plan on rereading it tonight at work, given the chance. And probably again after that.
If possible, CTD is even better than SD. You have a voice that grabs and engages the reader, very similar for me to Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
PS. Liked the book. *winks*
-Tug
Re: CTD
Date: 2005-07-02 03:11 am (UTC)*splutter, delighted grin*
Re: CTD
Date: 2005-07-02 03:52 am (UTC)-Tug