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rolanberry-rebel · 5 years

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The Family Sebastis

Stacks of old books don’t usually have any appeal to the young troublemaker of the Sebastis family. Especially piles of boring, dusty old tomes full of names, registries, records... sigh.

Anylissa usually hated history stories. Too slow, too boring, too pretentious.

The Sebastis family enjoys recalling the trumped-up tale of its origins, how a hardscrabble farmer named Oliver Sebastis arrived on the shores of La Noscea with only pocket-change and lint and his ragged pair of suspenders. The family’s story is one of building an empire from dust. Or, they want you to believe that, anyway...

Creeping into family records and sneaking her way into half the libraries in all the land, Lissa eventually traced her family’s story to an unsavory stowaway, a man actually named Marcel. An Ishgardian man of sour reputation, record of his life vanishes at just about the time Anylissa’s family records claim her great-great-great-great grandfather ‘Oliver’ arrived on the island.

Very little detail exists on the life of ‘Marcel’... as, indeed, very few know much of anything about the average days in the lives of Ishgard’s many street orphans. Likely, Marcel graduated from petty thief, to burglar, to hired muscle, to murderer under the employ of the city’s seedier elements. Marcel made a lot of money, and he made a lot of enemies - and when those enemies inevitably decided to turn on him, he found himself in chains, stuffed into a jail cell.

Marcel was certain his own friends, powerful themselves, would see him released. But as time passed, days waxed and waned, he began to realize his contacts, his employers, had abandoned him. He needed to get work done for himself.

Fashioning a shiv from a wooden leg broken off of his cot, Marcel ruthlessly killed one guard before taking another hostage in a brash escape. Dashing through the streets, the city’s defenders on high alert, Marcel followed a series of secret tunnels back to his manor - which he found surrounded. Damning his luck, he retrieved what little he could - wealth stashed in drop points he could make it to - and he fled, never to look back.

Then, not long after, ‘Oliver Sebastis’ arrived on the shores of La Noscea. ‘Oliver’ quickly endeared himself to a lonely, senile old farmer, whose berry farm and vinyard had grown decrepit in the years since his sons left him to make their fortune among the cutthroats of Limsa. Oliver convinced the old man to ‘retire’ from the business, paying the poor old fool, who had come to trust Oliver as his only friend, nothing but a pittance of a sum.

Oliver had no talent for agriculture and no interest in back-breaking labor. But what he did have was a killer’s instinct, and the ability to make very convincing offers. Within a year the vinyards exported crates of grapes to winemakers across the island, and desperate peasant picked fields full of rolanberries for a loaf of bread a day.

But Oliver wanted more. He wanted a legacy. Just as he’d done in Ishgard, Oliver made a great many enemies - including an unscrupulous old merchant named Schmitt, a man whose network of contacts, trading partners, and fleet of sailing cogs made him one of the wealthiest men in Eorzea.

Only a few months later, Schmitt’s young wife Yulia - a fetching blonde several decades the merchant’s junior - had fallen hopelessly in love with the enthralling berry-farmer. Following an ‘unfortunate accident’ which claimed Schmitt’s life, freshly-widowed Yulia - now having inherited her deceased husband’s trading empire - moved onto the Sebastis farm. Oliver and Yulia married shortly after - and with both the product to move and the trade routes to move it, the name ‘Sebastis’ would embed itself into the fruit, wine, and.. other, trades, forever.

Were ‘Marcel’ and Oliver the same person? Is Anylissa the first Sebastis to discover the odd connections - or do her brothers, her parents, or her wicked old grandmother know the truth? They’re questions she doesn’t know the answer to, but she knows that if word got out.. she might wind up a liability.

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dendroica · 6 years

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So, just who is William Happer? According to the Post, he’s a former Energy Department staffer under George H.W. Bush who joined this White House in September to work on “emerging technologies,” and, naturally, has no formal training as a climate scientist. But what he lacks in relevant knowledge he makes up for in a deep and abiding love for carbon dioxide, which he said during a summit in December 2016 is “not a pollutant at all” and is “actually a benefit to the earth,” despite having been unfairly maligned by “decade after decade of abuse, for no reason.” And, of course, he thinks that abuse has some historical parallels. “The demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler,” Happer explained to CNBC in 2014, after yelling at Andrew Ross Sorkin to “shut up” about him supposedly being a climate-change denier. In January 2017, he added in an e-mail to a Jezebel reader that the vilification of carbon dioxide also “differs little from . . . the Soviet extermination of class enemies or ISIL slaughter of infidels.” (Upon learning that Jezebel would be writing an item about the correspondence and his views, he responded, “If I understand the thrust of the article you are writing, your organization is well named. The original Queen Jezebel had an innocent man, Naboth, smeared and stoned to death so her husband, King Ahab, could steal his vinyard [sic]. You can smear me, as the original Jezebel did, but if you want to physically destroy me, you may find it [a] bit harder.”)

Trump’s New Climate Czar: Carbon Dioxide Has Been Treated Just Like “Jews Under Hitler” | Vanity Fair

#climate change #carbon dioxide #environment #anti-semitism #politics

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shihtzuman · 6 years

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Trump’s New Climate Czar: Carbon Dioxide Has Been Treated Just Like “Jews…

Turn Left originally shared:

The Washington Post reports that the White House is assembling a panel to “assess whether climate change poses a national security threat,” headed by a guy who makes coal lobbyist-turned-Acting E.P.A. Administrator Andrew Wheeler look like a radical environmentalist. Yes, the administration has hired some real crackpots before, but this guy laps those suckers by miles. So, just who is William Happer? According to the Post, he’s a former Energy Department staffer under George H.W. Bush who joined this White House in September to work on “emerging technologies,” and, naturally, has no formal training as a climate scientist. But what he lacks in relevant knowledge he makes up for in a deep and abiding love for carbon dioxide, which he said during a summit in December 2016 is “not a pollutant at all” and is “actually a benefit to the earth,” despite having been unfairly maligned by “decade after decade of abuse, for no reason.” And, of course, he thinks that abuse has some historical parallels.

“The demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler,” Happer explained to CNBC in 2014, after yelling at Andrew Ross Sorkin to “shut up” about him supposedly being a climate-change denier. In January 2017, he clarified in an e-mail to a Jezebel reader that the vilification of carbon dioxide “really differs little from . . . the Soviet extermination of class enemies or ISIL slaughter of infidels.” (Upon learning that Jezebel would be writing an item about the correspondence and his views, he responded, “If I understand the thrust of the article you are writing, your organization is well named. The original Queen Jezebel had an innocent man, Naboth, smeared and stoned to death so her husband, King Ahab, could steal his vinyard [sic]. You can smear me, as the original Jezebel did, but if you want to physically destroy me, you may find it [a] bit harder.”)

Other choice quotes from Happer, who, shockingly, has received money from the fossil-fuel industry:

“If plants could vote, they would vote for coal.” November 2015

“It’s not as though if you double CO2 you make a big difference. You make a barely detectable difference.” November 2017

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/william-happer-climate-change-panel

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a2znewsplace · 3 years

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Report: Larry David Went Nuts On Alan Dershowitz Over Trump Lies at a Martha’s Vinyard Grocery Store

Larry David, the genius involved in both Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, has never made his politics a secret. The actor and writer openly supported Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. And he played his distant cousin Bernie Sanders in skits for Saturday Night Live. At one time, Alan Dershowitz was also a prominent Democrat. But the renowned lawyer switched sides and advised and…

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delightfulkittengladiator · 4 years

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If all you want for yourself and your family, is basic survival have your life dictated to you, no education if wouldn’t matter anyway, since you will work where the establishment wants you to work and what to eat and how much and recreational projects will include picking up rock, shoveling shit, packing groceries cleaning toilets. Oh that’s right you have a big fat degree, yey well you will get s special place with other people to protect the govt. GOT THE PICTURE.I can tell you a lot more. And I know a lot more about the most corrupt bunch of shit in our govt. that I have ever seen.Shit, and know one sees it. WOW idiots. This plan has been in effect since Obama got in as President and then ask yourself where did a poor black man as he said manage to purchase a home on Martha’s Vinyard and what about the mansion in Washington DC. And what the hell is he doing there still. Guess, George Soros Non citizen kicked out of Hungry, kicked out of France for laundering money 2 time felon. WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING HgERE IN AMERICA. I’ll tell you he wants to overthrow our democracy, and he is paying people such as ANTIFA, defund police, paying of district attorneys across the country to let violent felons out of jail. Of course the crap will. stop since old Soros isn’t paying anymore. Get it. If you don’t run like hell to the polls trust nobody and vote for democracy, and it ain’t Biden because toilet face Pelosi is pushing the 25th amendment in case the President can’t perform, shes not talking about Trump fools she is clearing the field for HARRIS, BIDEN HAS a brain problem so of course get the good old 25th out and ready it for what is coming. The Harris communist party .

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narcisbolgor-blog · 7 years

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Trump Supporters Think Obama Was Golfing During Hurricane Katrina When He Wasn’t Even The President Then!

This is what happens when you yell about actual news being fake while spreading "alternative facts." Your followers become idiots.

Supporters took to

The Twittersphere was filled with people talking about how Obama hadn't been nearly as good a president during Hurricane Katrina because he was too busy golfing.

Of course, Obama wasn't a good president during Katrina. BECAUSE HE WASN'T PRESIDENT DURING KATRINA!

Obama didn't take office until 2009, nearly three and a half years after the Hurricane hit the Gulf Coast. But that didn't stop the parade of ignorance (see below):

Will you please get lost. Where were you when Katrina hit, oh right, playing golf. Now you want to play president. NEVER again — Annie Kleynjans (@AnnieKleynjans) August 28, 2017

He literally told the Gov of TX "anything u want, u got it". WTF else is he supposed to do? Be on the golf course like Obama was w/katrina? — Middle America Spoke (@GoBlue1131) August 28, 2017

Obama played golf at Martha's Vinyard when Katrina hit. Now he tries everything to upstage current POTUS. Pathetic. — Shawn Vermillion (@VermillionShawn) August 28, 2017

u guys are so quick to criticize Trump. Where was Obama when Hurricane Katrina hit…

o yeah, he was playing golf for 3 days!! … SAD!! — fontaineaux (@Lynchburged) August 29, 2017

He isn't playing golf, like Obama during Katrina. — CJES (@Carolyn31806792) August 29, 2017

Obama played golf for a whole week before doing anything after katrina hit. — Joy Stewart (@ColtsFanJlynRN) August 26, 2017

On this anniversary of #HurricaneKatrina making landfall let us never forget…

Barack Obama wasn't president.

Stay in school kiddos. http://pic.twitter.com/qnBxOVTbZF — Schatz 🤦🏻‍♂️ (@emjbourne) August 29, 2017

Yes I do. I was immediately fixed it but the haters pounced quickly while not denying its point which was that Obama stayed golfing. — sheila (@sheila06942158) August 29, 2017

Right. The point still stands. Even though every aspect of it was factually inaccurate. Why are y'all being haters?

Are there really THAT many completely ignorant American voters?? Maybe. But some analysts believe most of these Twitter users are actually bots — fake accounts to send the same message en masse. This kind of commenting is a more pervasive form of spreading propaganda; while the message can be easily disproven, unlike a single website it can't be easily policed.

This kind of fake news spreading is believed to have slightly influenced the election, so as ridiculous as this story is, it's no joke.

Photos: 10 Times Donald Trump Helped Spread Fake News!

Whether Trump supporters are delusional or illusory, we have a real problem here.

Oh, and BTW — Obama, an Illinois Senator at the time, wasn't golfing either. In fact, he took time to visit with Katrina evacuees in Houston.

Bill Clinton and then Senator Barack Obama in New Orleans visiting Hurricane Katrina victims 2005 http://pic.twitter.com/O4r89ncRKM — Bettie Rose (@BettieRose100) April 9, 2016

[Image via WENN.]