The Old Hack

I've seen the version, "I love my country, it's my government I fear."
Seems to go along with the bumper sticker, "I have nothing against God, but his fan clubs are getting out of hand!"

As I've often said I love this country, usually followed "it's the government I don't always agree with". My Slovak ancestors came here on the cusp of the WWI fleeing similar persecution by the Austro-Hungarians. I feel the basic ideal set in the Declaration & Constitution were a good foundation to improve on and while we have struggled and fought most of us have tried to maintain and even improve on those concepts.

The full quote of "My Country, Right or Wrong", an off used phrase is
 

You may have noticed I'm ex military.  "Organic assets" vs "Attached assets" are very freaking important.  Unless the crap1 has hit the fan hard Organic assets tend to stay with you.  Attached assets will go away just as you need them.  Voice of personal experience. 
1Not the word normally used in that context.  Often modified by the not work place friendly of fracking.

To my mind, at least, hijinks means fun/amusing, and since things cease to be fun/amusing when someone gets hurt, hijinks transitively must be safe.

Quick! Someone give this man the Heimlich maneuver!

Yes. the question now is full scale nudity or shrunk nudity.  Either way is good, but I have a fully validated pervert card, YMMV

Three quarters of a century ago, the Nazis, the Gestapo and all its odious apparatus overran my homeland Denmark. Ignoring peace treaties and all civilised decency they stripped my home of its freedom and independence, reduced it to a mere cog in their war machine, a stepping stone for its conquest of Norway. As time passed, they gradually tightened the screws, taking away all our own mechanisms of government, arresting and imprisoning our police force and eventually inflicting their merciless acts of genocide on Danish homosexuals, Gypsies, disabled, Jews -- anyone that did not meet their nightmarish ideals of Aryan perfection. My family had to flee to Sweden to survive and not everyone made it to safety. Of those that did not, few survived, none of them unmarked.
But the darkness that had fallen across Europe did not last. Eventually a restless giant stirred in its sleep, awoke, and rose to come to the rescue of the Old World. Many nations fought the evils of the Nazis. Of those, few brought as much, sacrificed as much as America did.
That war is long gone now, but I have not forgotten. I and my family directly owe our lives, home and freedom to America and her people. To the soldiers who fought so long and hard, to the working men and women in the factories, to the ordinary people who made the marvelous industry of the giant work and run when it was needed the most. To fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters who sacrificed so much, lost so many they loved. To all of America's people, whatever race or creed, for all of them paid for that war, for that freedom I now have today.
Many years have passed since then. America has changed, since. Grown, and suffered growing pains. She is not perfect and never has been, but she still struggles to improve and make herself better. And precisely this is why America is great: because she always tries to be better.
I will give the last word to my father, who feels this debt as keenly as I do. He is certain that whatever troubles America is enduring she will in the fullness of time rise above them -- because Americans are their own harshest critics, because they cannot rest while they believe injustice reigns.
It has been so for two and a half centuries. And that much, at least, has not changed.
And so, in this dark time of vitriol and partisanship and division, do not forget your roots. America IS great. Do not let anyone tell you otherwise.
I believe in you. Thank you all.

Canon cannon cannot can canoes non-canonically.

The only quads I care about are of the marching and Belgian ale kind.

You can pick any frame of reference you want, and all are equally valid.  That in itself would not preclude there being a geographic center to the universe.  I suspect there are plenty of esoteric theories, many of them incompatible, and am not qualified to judge between them.

The Moderator: But not in this thread, please.

The real miracle: will achieve lasting peace in the Middle East.

No, that's normally when bandit shows up with the popcorn.  He has an profit sharing deal with Doc on it.

I saw Doc head in the same direction with a huge pile of electronics in his arms whilst cackling madly, so Bandit may be a bit delayed.

Well, looks like for now, it's nudity on the way, with hijinks possible.  Where is Bandit with the popcorn?
 

She is worried for him. He has made a lot of experiments that have either been shaped by or entirely relied on the intense magical field in Moperville. (Also, as an aside: I suspect Tedd can only use his Marked spell because of the magical field, but I am uncertain of how much of a factor that plays in Grace's concerns.)
In short, once the field is gone, much of Tedd's work will have been rendered irrelevant. This is probably also why Tedd is reluctant to believe Box. It's a massive shock to his worldview, especially if Box is speaking the truth. Note that he is arguing with himself in order to convince himself that reducing the magic field is actually a good thing.

Even though Edward says it's a bad idea because of the potential harm it would do if used by the wrong people. The real reason is because trying to make it public would end up making it so no one would have magic for however long it takes for someone to figure out the changes. Sure, Tedd is in a position to be the person that does it, but he's still faced with the threat of another change if he or someone else triedmaking magic public again.
I guess you could say he might be wondering if what he's been doing these past few years was really worth it.

Tedd would also like to give magic to everyone, and is now having to face the same wall as Pandora.  Grace is smart enough to realize that.

Is it too much to hope for that Rhoda's spell gets tangled in Catalina's magic and we get a Shrinkageddon instead of a Catgirl-ageddon?
Ah... as far as we know. Hypothetically, other exceptions may exist. Please forgive me for being a bit obsessive about details like this but they nag at me at times. >.<

She is worried for him. He has made a lot of experiments that have either been shaped by or entirely relied on the intense magical field in Moperville. (Also, as an aside: I suspect Tedd can only use his Marked spell because of the magical field, but I am uncertain of how much of a factor that plays in Grace's concerns.)
In short, once the field is gone, much of Tedd's work will have been rendered irrelevant. This is probably also why Tedd is reluctant to believe Box. It's a massive shock to his worldview, especially if Box is speaking the truth. Note that he is arguing with himself in order to convince himself that reducing the magic field is actually a good thing.

She is worried for him. He has made a lot of experiments that have either been shaped by or entirely relied on the intense magical field in Moperville. (Also, as an aside: I suspect Tedd can only use his Marked spell because of the magical field, but I am uncertain of how much of a factor that plays in Grace's concerns.)
In short, once the field is gone, much of Tedd's work will have been rendered irrelevant. This is probably also why Tedd is reluctant to believe Box. It's a massive shock to his worldview, especially if Box is speaking the truth. Note that he is arguing with himself in order to convince himself that reducing the magic field is actually a good thing.

An Imperial Milk Stout called "The Temptress," from the Lakewood Brewing Company here in Garland. And a peanut granola bar.

Three quarters of a century ago, the Nazis, the Gestapo and all its odious apparatus overran my homeland Denmark. Ignoring peace treaties and all civilised decency they stripped my home of its freedom and independence, reduced it to a mere cog in their war machine, a stepping stone for its conquest of Norway. As time passed, they gradually tightened the screws, taking away all our own mechanisms of government, arresting and imprisoning our police force and eventually inflicting their merciless acts of genocide on Danish homosexuals, Gypsies, disabled, Jews -- anyone that did not meet their nightmarish ideals of Aryan perfection. My family had to flee to Sweden to survive and not everyone made it to safety. Of those that did not, few survived, none of them unmarked.
But the darkness that had fallen across Europe did not last. Eventually a restless giant stirred in its sleep, awoke, and rose to come to the rescue of the Old World. Many nations fought the evils of the Nazis. Of those, few brought as much, sacrificed as much as America did.
That war is long gone now, but I have not forgotten. I and my family directly owe our lives, home and freedom to America and her people. To the soldiers who fought so long and hard, to the working men and women in the factories, to the ordinary people who made the marvelous industry of the giant work and run when it was needed the most. To fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters who sacrificed so much, lost so many they loved. To all of America's people, whatever race or creed, for all of them paid for that war, for that freedom I now have today.
Many years have passed since then. America has changed, since. Grown, and suffered growing pains. She is not perfect and never has been, but she still struggles to improve and make herself better. And precisely this is why America is great: because she always tries to be better.
I will give the last word to my father, who feels this debt as keenly as I do. He is certain that whatever troubles America is enduring she will in the fullness of time rise above them -- because Americans are their own harshest critics, because they cannot rest while they believe injustice reigns.
It has been so for two and a half centuries. And that much, at least, has not changed.
And so, in this dark time of vitriol and partisanship and division, do not forget your roots. America IS great. Do not let anyone tell you otherwise.
I believe in you. Thank you all.

Well, one Danish sports champion is named Tom Bogs, whose last name is pronounced exactly like that. He was a multiple European champion in... boxing.
I am not even kidding.