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The Turks have been trying to stay progressive and secular in the face of fundamentalist backlash for decades. They are trying hard to be what the Caliphate was before the barbarians destroyed it. And maybe even more open-minded.

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No doctrine of Apocalypse to pursue right off a cliff.

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Constantinopolis: City of Constantine, the Emperor of the East following the deterioration of the Western Roman Empire. The Slavs call it Czar-grad because that's what it is, the City of the (Eastern) Caesar. Istanbul, funnily enough, is basically a transliteration of the Byzantine highway signs: ista an polis = "this way to the city"(whaddya mean which city? you got wax in your ears? the city!), with the usual p to b confusion in Arabic accounted for.

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Nobody's business but the Turks.

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With turkish delight on a moonlit night

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And one of W's daughters will buy up the rights to it. Bitches.

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Thorium reactor?

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Based on the markets today, looks like the Chinese be owning the numbers.

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Yay for PNW. If they get enough extra power from individuals, they can pretty much run the lights in Manhattan. And charge a pretty penny. The grids sell power across regions, as I understand it.

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There you go again, casting aspersions on Louie's asparagus. He warned that boah who was playin' at bein' an attorneh about thet.

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I adore Dok Zoom.

I can almost overlook his apostasy on the subject of Tom Bombadil.

(Ponies love Tom!)

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Hmmm. Maybe better to say that they're trying to carry on in the tradition of Ataturk, rather than the Caliphate. Not sure that the progressive and secular in Turkey look to their Islamic heritage for support, so much as to Kemal.

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All the women get wet around this sort of vehicle exhaust.

(All the men, too, of course)

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John and John did a cover! I did not know that!

But ... "J. Kennedy" in 1953? I mean, I'm pretty sure that "N. Simon" isn't Paul, but not so sure about Jackie's husband.

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Sat hi to Albert when you get there. Nice guy, but he does go on and on about his relatives or something.

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