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[apocalypsos]

Two questions that have made me think waaaaaaay too much into the last twenty-four hours:

1. In Underworld, Michael became half-vampire and half-werewolf. So what does it mean if he bites someone else? Do they become half-vampire and half-werewolf, or do they croak? And why the hell do I even care?

... and ...

2. If Gore had ended up with the presidency, and September 11th had still happened, and the Democrats had mentioned at the DNC this year that he should be reelected partly for his bang-up job after 9/11, how would the Republicans have responded?

I need to think about something else infinitely more important to me in the short run, like, say, my TroNoWriMo story. Oh, yes. *scurries off to write*

EDIT: Yet another thing that makes me think.

Comments

[ewacat.livejournal.com]

Regarding 1 - they'd croak, surely?

Oh, bugger. Now you've got me thinking.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

*sees icon, dies giggling*

[phillyexpat.livejournal.com]

There's a chapter in Vurt that explains what happens when "mixed breeds" mix.

[unanon.livejournal.com]

Methinks they die. Die, die, die. In fact, methinks they said something to that effect in the movie; all die unless they have the all-important x-factor from the bloodline of Corvinus or some such drivel.

DEATH!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

It does make you wonder, though, whether they'll put some shit in the sequel, like, "Oh, yeah. That death thing. We were wrong. Yeah, he can, um, make a nice little army of minions just him. Yeah, that's the ticket ..."

Urgh. I shouldn't have to use the words Underworld and sequel in the same thought process.

[unanon.livejournal.com]

Um.. they ARE totally sequeling it, y'know. At least last I heard they were.

Yes. Totally.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. And there's a prequel coming, too. And somewhere out there, a poor deserving unknown filmmaker goes another year without making a really great movie. *sigh*

[unanon.livejournal.com]

PREQUEL!? PRE-quel?

That's too much. Ugh. Am slightly revolted now.

[ewacat.livejournal.com]

Naw, the prequel is actually fifteen minutes or so as part of the second movie.

Wheee.

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

'2. If Gore had ended up with the presidency, and September 11th had still happened, and the Democrats had mentioned at the DNC this year that he should be reelected partly for his bang-up job after 9/11, how would the Republicans have responded?'

or,

'2. If Bush were the one who had gone to Vietnam and earned Purple Hearts, and Kerry was the one who had stayed home because he had powerful connections, and Democratic delegates at the DNC passed around and wore Purple Heart band-aids to mock Bush's military service, how would the Republicans have responded?'

Republican Delegates Mock Purple Heart at Convention

[sabotabby]

1. He's a nice vampire-slash-werewolf* so he doesn't bite anyone, hence making the question moot.

2. Is that a rhetorical question? (See mockery of Kerry's Vietnam career.) Although if you believe Moore, if Gore had been president, 9-11 wouldn't have happened. ::eyeroll::

*There's a mental image for ya!

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I thought the terrorists only went after Bush supporters, according to Moore. Maybe they would have crashed the planes into the Republican Party HQ.

[seferin.livejournal.com]

While 9-11 would still have happened, there would be some differences...

1. We would not have attacked a country *cough* Iraq*cough* which had no connection
2. We would not have acted arbitrarily, nor lied about the evidence
3. We would not have cut taxes for the rich, which Bush seemed to think was the highest priority
4. We would have more fuel efficient cars
5. California would not have been raped by the energy companies
6. The lunatics, err lobbyists, would not be in charge of the departments they lobbied for previously
7. We would have been asked to sacrifice, to do something to feel like we were helping
8. The terrorists in Israel would not have been rewarded with a state
9. The nations of the world would not hate us
10. Our plan for energy and global warming would not actually be corporate welfare
11. The economy would be better
12. More people would be employed/have healthcare
13. Drug prices would not be usurious
14. The vets in Iraq would not be dead
15. The Iraqis would not be dead
16. The Afghanis would not be dead

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

California would not have been raped by the energy companies

Oh, yes, they would have. That has/had nothing to do with the president, and everything to do with the government of the State of California, who approved all those contracts (and under whose leadership CA outlawed many forms of electricity production while allowing the headcount of the state to spiral). CA did that to themselves. They got nobody else to blame.

The lunatics, err lobbyists, would not be in charge of the departments they lobbied for previously

Bush/Gore? Two sides of the same coin, baby. Both spoiled rich kids who rode to power on their daddys' coattails. If you don't think he'd have been practicing nepotism just as much as Bush, think again. :/

[seferin.livejournal.com]

When CA asked for help, they would have received it.

And while Gore might have practiced nepotism, he would not have given up all pretense of impartiality.

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

When CA asked for help, they would have received it.

Why should they get help? They made that bed themselves, over many long years. The state needed to get themselves out of it (starting with building more power plants) instead of expecting the federal government to bail them out at everyone else's expense.

[seferin.livejournal.com]

Because the companies were engaging in fraud?

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

But they weren't. CA just made a bad business deal, and those companies took advantage of it.

[silverhill.livejournal.com]

2. If Gore had ended up with the presidency, and September 11th had still happened, and the Democrats had mentioned at the DNC this year that he should be reelected partly for his bang-up job after 9/11, how would the Republicans have responded?

Are you kidding? If Gore had ended up with the presidency and September 11th had still happened, on September 12th the Republicans would have started the negative campaigning on the theme that 9/11 was all Gore's fault. The DNC wouldn't be in New York. The Democrats would be too scared to mention 9/11, which would be known as "their tragedy." And if they did mention it, the Republicans wouldn't have to say anything because it would just remind people of the tragedy that was all the Democrats' fault. Stupid, really, to remind people of your massive screw-ups during a campaign.

I'm joking. ... Well, kind of.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I always did wonder what would happen if Oz was bitten and turned and in the meantime, managed to bite his attacker