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Pyrephox ([personal profile] pyrephox) wrote2008-01-24 03:21 pm

New Bond Flick Name:

"Quantum of Solace"

That just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? Man, did they just throw darts at SAT vocabulary lists, or what?

Also, apparently the government is going to give everyone in the country who earns under 75K a six hundred dollar check. Why do I feel like I'm in the first Batman movie, and that Joker float is a-rolling down the street, tossing out all those free bills. Seriously, people. If you'd fix what's broken, we wouldn't /need/ six hundred dollar give aways, and where, exactly, is the money coming from in the first place, with our deficit?

Bah.

[identity profile] cythraul.livejournal.com 2008-01-24 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Wikipedia tells me the title comes from one of Fleming's short stories, from the For Your Eyes Only collection.

Also: the Ontario government totally did that! Only they didn't limit it to just under $75K, which is even sillier.

[identity profile] pyrephox.livejournal.com 2008-01-25 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
It /still/ sounds incredibly silly! ...admittedly not as silly as Octopussy, but man, that's not saying much.

Why can't we take the GOOD ideas from Canada?

[identity profile] cythraul.livejournal.com 2008-01-25 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Like public health care? :D

(Coooome to Caaaaaanada.......)

[identity profile] undauntra.livejournal.com 2008-01-25 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Nah, I hear horror stories from my friends in New Brunswick about how bad the public heathcare is.

[identity profile] cpip.livejournal.com 2008-01-25 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Because Canada's ideas often work adequately for Canada's unique situation of having minimal long-term large-scale defense committments and supporting infrastructure, extremely low population density, and an entire population smaller than California's.

It's nice to be a minor nation.