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I predict a terrible ending to any Surprise Me Eris Experiment.

I don't want to give away any spoilers or anything, but don't be surprised if California falls into the sea.

That's kinda like saying "Surprise Me Charles Manson", come to think of it.

Except infinitely more varied.  There are only so many times Charlie can invite a gang of savages around your place and play games with cleavers and limbs until it gets...well, not boring exactly, but expected.

Foucault, thou art proven right!

Again.

Bastard.

I'd still like to do Westcrown as well.  Maybe we could see who still wanted to do that setting and who wanted to do another and split off into two groups?

Seriously.  I mean, come on, prove me wrong.  We're going to get a Hung Parliament, unless Gordon Brown eats a live kitten on the air or something, and that Hung Parliament is a best case scenario, since it merely paralyses the state and so limits the damage government can do.  After that, the next most likely scenario is the Tories win, and decide to ride the British economy down to the gory end, like Dr Strangelove and his nuke.

And if that's not bad enough, in the meantime we have to put up with Labour and Tory party activists behaving like...well, whiney brats.  "ZOMG Labour MP hurt my feelings on Twitter!", "ROFL I used Photoshop to make this Tory poster funny".  Honestly, if you want a poster that sums up this election, have a bunch of Tory and Labour MPs perform bukkake on an unwilling voter, and paste the photo all over London.  

Thank you for listening to this edition of "Cain Hates The British Political Elite And Wants Them To Be Covered In Honey And Let Loose in the Millenium Dome With A Swarm Of Killer Bees".

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I predict a terrible ending to any Surprise Me Eris Experiment.

I don't want to give away any spoilers or anything, but don't be surprised if California falls into the sea.

Pots/drugs: an all encompassing explanation

No-one cares about your trip.  No-one.  Not even your mother.  Your pets actually fall asleep when you start to talk about it, and you only own sea monkeys.  Now shut up about it.

I still think I'm onto something with that comment about Yog Soggoth...

Yeah, tell them that and there'll be like a 500% increase in suspicious white vans, clown suits, bags of sweets and nylon rope sales.

There are Saudi princes that don't fund terrorism?

I'm pretty sure there is an exemption for "patriotic" groups.

Incidentally I'm pretty sure they got this idea from France, where all groups which are not registered with a certain government office and have an official structure (membership fees etc) is illegal.  You don't wanna be copying ideas from France do you?

Given Ford had Rumsfeld and Cheney as his Chiefs of Staff, I cant see anything good coming of his administration.  Ford also raised Bush Sr's stature quite a lot (liason to China, CIA director).  Helsinki Accords was smart, not condemning the invasion of Cyprus was stupid, letting Kissinger conduct diplomacy between Israel and the Arab states was stupid, trying to throw money at South Vietnam was stupid and the Mayaguez incident was really stupid.

Squeaky Fromme also tried to off him though, so he can't have been all bad.

Sorceror is by far the easiest spellcasting class for a beginner.

However, we already have two sorcerors in the party, while we only have one high competency melee class (the ranger).  We could really do with another melee class, like a fighter, paladin or barbarian to balance things out.  Especially since our ranger isn't exactly a tank, either.

I'm sure that played a role, but by the end of the war, people who'd been right all along about the uselessness of trench warfare were pretty much the only officers left standing, and so ideas like stormtroopers (Germany) and front-line penetration with tanks (the British) were being tried by both sides.  It was still mostly attrition either way - Germany gave up not because it was pushed into a position where it had to stop the war or be occupied, but because it was literally out of supplies.  German troops were still on French soil at the end of the war - that was one of the reasons for resentment after the war which fed into the Stab In the Back myth which fed antisemitism and Nazi conspiracy theories.

http://www.disam.dsca.mil/pubs/Vol%2010-2/Bremer.pdf that is the official Reagan policy I've linked to.  An extract:

Another important measure we have developed in our overall strategy is applying the rule of law to terrorists. Terrorists are criminals. They commit criminal actions like murder, kidnapping, and arson, and countries have laws to punish criminals. So a major element of our strategy has been to delegitimize terrorists, to get society to see them for what they are -- criminals -- and to use democracy's most potent tool, the rule of law against them.

As for torture:

It was also Ronald Reagan who signed the Convention Against Torture in 1988 -- after many years of countless, horrific Terrorist attacks -- which not only declared that there are "no exceptional circumstances whatsoever" justifying torture, but also required all signatory countries to "ensure that all acts of torture are offences under its criminal law" and -- and Reagan put it -- "either to prosecute torturers who are found in its territory or to extradite them to other countries for prosecution."