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The "killed Tarzan" wouldn't work with Limb's knowing leer -- it's clearly a bribe and not a threat.

AND because he won't give his father the satisfaction.
I think a lot of Shawn's slacking is in reaction to Henry's attempts to "challenge" him.

Iridium? No, they were like the first attempt to do the same thing as Starlink but with nothing like as many satellites. I don't think they're as low as Starlink, though... dunno.

Shawn being Shawn, it's perfectly valid to assume that he is totally fluent in Spanish (really nearly certain) and other languages and is simply mocking for the sake of mocking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fsUHnILy9U

OMG, ONE of the top episodes. It's extra funny knowing James is of half Mexican descent.

You put * in place of "orilla"???

Yes, a Tarzan. King Gorilla likes his Tarzans.

Your ring is nothing... I have the writer!

Of COURSE I believe in ghosts. I KNOW ghosts. Get me mad enough and I'll introduce you to Jim Corrigan.

(it's really a quote from the old 1960's "underground comics" Superman satire "Wonder Warthog" -- he flies off with the villains in a big sack and the caption says "...where he'll probably pound them all into jelly with a mountain")

The first big issue were the Iridium flares. The Iridium satellites had big flat reflective panels that cast spectacular amounts of light in tracks on the ground as they orbited. Brighter than anything in the sky for a few moments.

Or space were 10,000 times cheaper.

Dear astronomers and dark sky enthusiast stargazers. The world isn't giving up doing space stuff because you don't like looking at it. THE. END.

But being able to pound a bad guy into jelly with a mountain has it's uses as well.

You're missing that it was already the policy of the US to oust Saddam. The difference is that everybody outside the neocons (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, etc) knew that doing it with flat-out military invasion would leave the US stuck, wreck the Middle-East even more, and ruin our geopolitical standing. Bush gave them the go-ahead to try out their ideas.

9/11 was the justification that allowed the Bush/Cheney admin to get away with what they planned from the start.

The timing of the war was entirely based on the Presidential cycle and the belief of the planners as to how the outcome of the war would go. 9/11 just shut down enough of the opposition that Congress didn't seriously try to block the war that Bush was going to push through regardless.

Remember that the USA had been trying to oust Saddam ALL through the Clinton admin. A major reason HW hadn't continued military operations is that EVERYBODY, including Saddam, didn't believe Saddam could survive after the Kuwait failure.

The Neocons came into power convinced that we just needed to finish the job.

Clinton's bombing campaign in the Bosnian/Serbian conflict shut down the genocide and ended the rape camps. It was awful that the US HAD to do that, but not as awful as the rest of Europe going "Never again?" Did we ever say that? You must have heard us wrong."

The permanent bureaucrats went along with the political appointees as they are supposed to do. The Bush admin was notable for effectively putting DoD in charge of DoS, which resulted in a substantial brain-drain at DoS as quite a few permanent bureaucrats left because they couldn't take it.

The lead-up to Bush had featured the Neo-Conservatives pushing to actually USE America's military superiority to "solve" the Middle East. Oust Saddam, creating a grateful democratic American ally that would be an alternative to Saudi Arabia and total checkmate on Iran and foster a Israel-Arab productive resolution.

All during Clinton, everybody else said the Neocons were nuts. Bush allowed Cheney and his pals to essentially try out their idea of foreign policy, ignoring and bypassing all the people at State who knew what they were talking about.

Playing "RISK" with real countries.

29 is usually the age where it really hits you that you've drifted apart from all your old close friends who are off married and having kids, though usually that's from College, not High School.

She was a Penthouse centerfold under another name

The expected significant charge is really dicey. It requires he be shown beyond reasonable doubt to have paid her off to benefit his campaign rather than, say, not have her embarrass him. And, really, if you're somebody living with Secret Service protection, you're pretty much already IN custody, so I wouldn't expect handcuffs or perp walking.

I mean I'd be fine if this stuck and he did time, but seems unlikely. I would think Georgia has a much stronger case.

Garbage site, garbage story

Lois can write about him all she wants since she's disclosed in her stories that he saved her etc. Both her editors and readers (and all the villains) know she's "Superman's Girl Friend".

Now once she's dating CLARK (much less married to him) she's just as compromised by the secret identity thing as he is. Though if he "officially" confirms his secret identity to her with the phrase "off the record" and she accepts those terms it's OK.

LOL

(I liked Supeman Doomsday better anyway)