Repossessing the U.S.A.

To the citizens of the United States of America (A message from John Cleese):

“In light of your failure to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.”

“Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas ,which she does not fancy).”

“Your new prime minister, Gordon Brown, will appoint a governor for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.”

“To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:

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Story: Designation

A little bit of a story which I’m reserving rights to. Starts now:

“Are there any side effects?” he had asked.
“None besides the obvious ones that come with such a relationship.”
“Why not experiment on a grunt–they don’t matter?” but you don’t say things like that. No one ever says things like that. Even now, at this last moment when anything that is said would allow the individual to be released from the program, free to go to whatever other aspect of military life–but that would be failure. Instead he said “For the Great Cause.”
“For the Great Cause.”

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This Film is Not Yet Rated

I’m currently watching this documentary on IFC called “This Film is Not Yet Rated”. They’re going through and showing all these little tidbits of information like the MPAA is run by mostly unknown people who are stated to have children between the ages of 2 and 19 really have kids who are in their upper twenties; that most movies that get an NC-17 rating is because of sex and not violence; that sometimes they just say “it was the overall tone of the movie” that earns a rating.

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