Screencaps, News and a Meme

[misscam]

Been screencapping season three and season four of CSI (season one and two to come). Here's a small selection, rather Grissom/Sara, Catherine/Warrick focused, but with other stuff as well. *coughlotsofWarrickcough* High resolution, feel free to use if you find any use for them or want to make me something pretty (I have no shame).

S3&4 Selected Screencaps

A BBC story that caught my eye - A growing number of pharmacists across America are refusing to dispense birth control and the morning-after pill

I find this more than a little troubling, to be frank. All in all, there are more than a few rather fundamentalist Christian campaigns out of the US of late leaving me feeling vaguely disturbed. I am not Christian. I do not want fundamentalist Christian morals to dictate *my* choices or the laws that govern me, but the US is great influence on the world. On my little sheltered Norway, too. But there are other forces at work too, of course. Fundamentalist Islam, growing secularism.... The future is still ours to shape and nothing is ever much certain.

In Norwegian news:
Crocodile seized in Oslo
'Russ' challenges draw ire
Football season starts

Five questions mem, as asked by belegcuthalion.

1. Norwegian people seem to be rather patriotic. What makes you love your country so much?

We're small and tiny and no one ever notices us much, so we have to love oruselves extra much to make up for it ;) Okay, kidding aside, I think it's a tradition bred into us by first the independence movement up to 1905 and later our occupation by Germany during WW2. And it is a beautiful, peaceful, quiet country where we live well.
2. If anyone gave you 1.000.000 $, what would you do with all the money?

Buy a little flat, then half the year work for various volunteer missions, the other half of the year I'd write, relax, run various web projects I'm pondering - just live. Eventually I'd use my experience to get a job at the UN or maybe even suceed as a writer.

3. Which famous book would you love to have written yourself?

Heh. Lord of the Rings, obviously.

4. What's your favorite drink?

Ice tea, green tea.

5. What kind of music makes you run anway screaming?

Neo-Nazi heavy metal with Viking references.

If you want me to ask you five questions, just make a comment.

And I had the oddest CSI/Amazing Race crossover dream yesterday. Grissom and Sara were racing and were in the final three teams, as was Warrick and me, though I'm not sure if I was dreaming me as me or me as Catherine. Most peculiar either way.

Comments

[sinneahtes.livejournal.com]

*fumes about the birth control thing*

"While they have the right to obtain the prescription, as an individual I always have my own rights not to fill it."

Ooh! Ooh! As an "individual" myself, do I have the right to go up to this person and punch him/her in the face then?! Because my line of thinking tells me that's what s/he deserves!

It must be really nice to believe you can refuse to do your job (to the point even of being rude to a customer or preventing her from keeping her life from being ruined) and still expect to keep your job (or else raise a stink about what a martyr you are). Really nice. Maybe I'd be sympathetic if a person REALLY believes birth control isn't something they believe they should be dispensing, if they let someone else within convenience dispense it in their place. But lecturing on morals, humiliating customers, preventing them from getting their prescription? Good bye to all traces of sympathy.

*grumble*

If you've got 5 questions to ask, my LJ will be glad that I don't rant myself blue about school in it tonight. ;)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

1. Why a pink layout?
2. What do whales really sing about?
3. You can bring back on extinct animal/fish/reptile. Which?
4. If cats ruled the world, the world would be...?
5. Your Sailor Moon name would be...?

Maybe people next will start muttering about how they as vegetarians can refuse to serve meat to people in resturants they work at. *rolls eyes*

[sinneahtes.livejournal.com]

1. It was kind of by accident. I don't really care for pink, but I like to match the layout colors to the banner image of the month, and pink was what I found myself ending up with while editing that photograph. O_o Ah well, I'll try anything once. I'll change it next month anyway.

2. Recommendations for species of fish that are good for smacking Bush and Co. with. ;)

3. I'd love to see a really primative whale, like just before or after they became permanently sea creatures. Or a brotosaurus. Trilobites are my favorite kind of fossil right now, but I wouldn't want to meet an actual one.

4. You mean, they don't already? Well, I imagine the world's sleep schedules would be a little more to my liking, then...

5. SM name? Like "Sailor Moron" and that sort of thing? *is terribly rusty with that fandom* ^_^; Hmm.... I'd probably get stuck with something stupid like "Sailor Victoria," if only because Naoko Takeuchi seemed to like giving characters everyday names that made you wonder how no one discovered their Sailor identities. :P

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Hee. Whales Against Bush!