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I'm surprised that in such a geeky group that no one has yet mentioned an even more direct fictional prediction: the pilot episode of the Lone Gunmen. Aired in early 2001, featured a airline flight hijacked to be flown into the WTC. *Showed* the plane barely avoiding it on screen, as I recall -- visuals that makes me wonder if that episode will ever make it out on DVD.

Being in the X-Files universe there was a level beyond the surface 'plane hijacked by foreign terrorists' that was the public story, of course. It was hijacked by remote control by a government agency to give them an excuse to wage war. Comments come to mind.

Hmm, poking around on the net, there's some good screen caps at this site.

Again, that's ridiculous. The concept that herding raised and dazed creatures in front of a gun is somehow either an experience resembling hunting or somehow cheaper. Handraised animals are *more* expensive than going hunting on public lands. And hunting is not especially difficult; a small amount of target practice to learn to hit what you aim at, following the instruction to sit quietly until the world stops noticing you are there, and *shooting only at what is close and clear enough to hit*. Which is the biggie -- I completely do not understand how people get away without manslaughter charges because they thought a noise in a bush was a turkey or someone wearing white gloves was a deer. If you are patient, animals will appear. If they do not, go to the damn store for a steak, don't take bad shots.

If you are going to kill an animal, it is your responsibility to do it the quickest and cleanest way possible. You hunt with a gun *because* you can't get close enough to wring a duck's neck. You hunt with a rifle because you can't get close enough to shoot a human killer between a deer's eyes. If you have animals in a pen, you kill them quickly and cleanly, you don't herd them out for your fucking *entertainment*.

My father, while a very urban writer, made plenty of time each fall and spring to go out and hunt deer and birds. I refuse to use the word 'hunting' to describe throwing a bunch of confused handraised birds in front of guns. If you want to hunt, you hunt. If you want to 'harvest', you take the birds out of the pen and wring their necks; quick and almost painless, unlike being winged by a shotgun by an amateur and left to flop around on the ground.

And notice that he landed safely in another House internship. Can't have rich baby Repugs having to deal with any consequences!

Augh! That was mean. I read the second line and went "ooh! a new brust, must run to Amazon'. Damn you.

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