Ankap - Angry at the Mayans for a false prediction? POST YOUR GRIEVANCES HERE!

[thedebutante]

why? i'm gonna watch it 'cause the two guys in it are hot

[TomServo]

Then you'll be watching lameness.

[Anonymouse]

I saw the episode last week. Although it looked like somewhat of a good story line, I was dismayed by the cheap graphics. Oh well, it's a one hour show after all, and you can't expect too much quality.

[TomServo]

And it's on the WB.

[TomServo]

"Today, London and Madrid. Tomorrow, Los Angeles and Melbourne, Allah willing."

[Anonymouse]

Did you see that stupid movie The Flight That Fought Back?

[TomServo]

Hahahaha, no, but it looked so jewing lame.

[Anonymouse]

911 never forget.

I did.

[TomServo]

911 never forget.

I did.

[TomServo]

Any of you read the book Ender's Game? I'm not very familiar with it, but there's a major character named Petra Arkanian and she gets (spoilers, oh well) kidnapped and, eh, just read this passage:

The disappearance of Petra Arkanian from her home in Armenia was worldwide news. The headlines were full of accusations hurled by Armenia against Turkey, Azerbaijan, and every other Turkish-speaking nation, and the stiff or fiery denials and counter-accusations that came in reply. There were the tearful interviews with her mother, the only witness, who was sure the kidnappers were Azerbaijani. "I know the language, I know the accent, and that's who took my little girl!"

Bean was with his family on the second day of their vacation at the beach on the island of Ithaca, but this was Petra, and he read the nets and watched the vids avidly, along with his brother, Nikolai. They both reached the same conclusion right away. "It wasn't any of the Turkish nations," Nikolai announced to their parents. "That's obvious."

Father, who had been working in government for many years, agreed. "Real Turks would have made sure to speak only Russian."

"Or Armenian," said Nikolai.

"No Turk speaks Armenian," said Mother. She was right, of course, since real Turks would never deign to learn it, and those in Turkish countries who did speak Armenian were, by definition, not really Turks and would never be trusted with a delicate assignment like kidnapping a military genius.

"So who was it?" said Father. "Agents provocateurs, trying to start a war?"

"My bet is on the Armenian government," said Nikolai. "Put her in charge of their military."

"Why kidnap her when they could employ her openly?" asked Father.

"Taking her out of school openly," said Nikolai, "would be an announcement of Armenia's military intentions. It might provoke preemptive actions by surrounding Turkey or Azerbaijan."

There was superficial plausibility in what Nikolai was saying, but Bean knewbetter. He had already foreseen this possibility back when all the militarily gifted children were still in space. At that time the main danger had come from the Polemarch, and Bean wrote an anonymous letter to a couple of opinion leaders on Earth, Locke and Demosthenes, urging them to get all the Battle School children back to Earth so they couldn't be seized or killed by the Polemarch's forces in the League War. The warning had worked, but now that the League War was over, too many governments had begun to think and act complacently, as if the world now had peace instead of a fragile ceasefire. Bean's original analysis still held. It was Russia that was behind the Polemarch's coup attempt in the League War, and it was likely to be Russia that was behind the kidnapping of Petra Arkanian.

There's more, but isn't that funny?