Fanfic update and Cam offer sage advice to Barbara Bush

[misscam]

Shades of Dawn has been updated with chapter three here (ff.net) and here (CSI Forensics). (You'll note my matching icon, tahnks to kitness. I have a certain weakness for icons with story titles of mine. Ego, I suspect. Baaaaad ego.)


"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them," says Barbara Bush

There is a wise old saying among my people, handed down fom Odin himself and not heeded nearly enough.

The witless had best be silent
When he moves among other men,
No one will know what a nit-wit he is
Until he begins to talk;
No one knows less what a nit-wit he is
Than the man who talks too much.

Or to translate into modern terms - Learn the fine art of STFU. Get that foot out of your mouth while you're at it. It's terribly unhygenic.

And I see the trend of writing fanfic about Katrina has reached the CSI fandom. I know it's meant well and all, but... I still feel an air of iff.

ETA: And Harry Potter...

Have worked all day. Feel exhausted and tired and iff. Blah.

In other news:
The blame game
New Orleans zoo survives Katrina
California backs gay marriage law
Jazz benefit in Norway for New Orleans (my parents are going)
Norske Skog becomes world largest producer of newspaper

Comments

[cactus-wren.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Barbara really stuck her foot in it on that one, didn't she? Also love how she said it's 'scary' to her that all the evacuees have indicated they want to stay in Texas. What's the matter, doesn't she want all those poor people who were unfortunate enough to have their lives turned upside down and everything they know destroyed mucking up her state?

[agentmaly.livejournal.com]

I think it's scary, too, but that's because I can't see why everyone would want to go to Texas. o.O; I mean, I realise they have nothing to lose, but if I were relocating after having lost everything, I'd want to go somewhere that's actually, you know, nice.

But whatever. I'm just prejudiced against Texas after having lived there for about ten years. ^^

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Can't have the 'underpriviliged' mucking up the lovely shine of Texas, now can we?

There is not enough STFU in the world for statements like that.

[aervir.livejournal.com]

No comment on Barbara Bush's remarks... *facepalm*

But YAY for California! Just YAY!!! :)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Hey, Savage Garden lyrics.

[hadria.livejournal.com]

Oh my God, BITCH DID NOT SAY THAT.

Icantbelieveshesaidthat.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I couldn't believe it either. The level of WTFness is on high and rising. Good grief.

*orders another dose of STFU with lemon for the Bushes*

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

Or, as Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said: "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Yes, but he wasn't a God.

*pats Odin*

[agentmaly.livejournal.com]

Learn the fine art of STFU.

I think it's a martial art, actually.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

A lethal one, no doubt.

[chunkylimes.livejournal.com]

I believe Barbs was also the one who talked about not troubling her beautiful mind about dead soldiers. Ah, how wonderful it must be to be completey callous/out of touch/both.

Odin rocks. He would make a really good SecGen of the UN.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I sense a recurring theme. Even more reason for her to heed Odin's excellent well-proved advice.

He'd kick major ass. Literally, probably. All would listen or get the Lighting O'Smiting.

[sinneahtes.livejournal.com]

Barbara Bush almost sounds like she's just said the modern equivalent of "Let them eat cake." *bangs head on keyboard*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Pretty much, yes.

*offers pillow*

[herbgurl82.livejournal.com]

Wow. That HP fic on the hurricane left me at a loss for words....
And Barbara Bush needs sew her mouth shut. On the bright side, with all the goofs, and mistakes that Bush and his cronies have been making with everything, perhaps negative repercussions for Bush/Cheney/ the Religious Right are not far off?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

You never do know... We'll have to wait and see (and keep fingers crossed).

Mark II

[highwindpav.livejournal.com]

"Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue." Proverbs 17:28

"If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom." Job 13:5

So, that's two deities and a great American president telling Barbera to STFU? I think she should listen.

(Redone because neither God nor Odin are on diets.)

Re: Mark II

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Hehehehe.

Yes, the Gods know of what they speak and now I'm suddenly imagining God and Odin discussing who gets to smack her down with the words of STFU.

[belegcuthalion.livejournal.com]

"If they have no bread, why don't they eat cake?"
(Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, at the end of the 18th century - when being asked about the starving peope of Paris.)

Any more comments?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Is this cake tasty?

[melliyna.livejournal.com]

*head desk*

My god - the stupidity and general insensitivity *sigh*

[b2wm.livejournal.com]

Now, at least the HP fic has not yet introduced a Sue who can make everything better...
...
There's applying your experiences to writing, and then there's prothelytizing an event to a place where it doesn't belong. Now, the writing isn't bad, but I'm gonna go with C.S. Lewis and say that a little bit of proper allegory never hurt anybody.

And Mrs. Bush, kindly take your comments somewhere else, because I don't want to hear it.

[karaotter.livejournal.com]

Concerning Barbara Bush, I'd like to use a common phrase used by my sister:
"Raise your hand.
Break your wrist.
Smack it against your chest.
Now, repeat after me: Duuuurrrr...."

[siraj.livejournal.com]

Courtesy of my co-workers (too damn early) this morning, which nearly made me walk out on my job today:

"Those poor people that are still there are less than animals, they're just a drain on resources, they should have been killed"

That, from my supervisor that just last week was awesome to me...


And regarding the Cali gay marraige thing, Schwarzenegger intends to shoot it down, "but agrees that gay couples shouldn't be discriminated against."

Can you say "asshole"? I knew you could...

[highwindpav.livejournal.com]

I thought The Governator didn't think it was his business legislating that?

Supevisor needs shot full of Silver Arrows. I have a variety...would you like maximum pain or just a swift end?