Congratulations ScorchFire

“I can see it now, on the Weekly World News:

GRADUATE PSYCHOLOGIST STUNS CRIMINOLOGY WORLD: JACK THE RIPPER ABUSED AS CHILD”

“I bet you say that to all the boys!! :)”

“Right next to:

ALIEN TRAPPED IN OVEN FOR EIGHT YEARS WITH BURNER ON HIGH”

“so a month from now on page 14E they'll be an itty blurb saying,

" appologies to miss ------. she was misquoted last month when we said that ted bundy was abused as a child."”

“Hey, maybe his planet is really hot or something...”

“LOL @ sacco”

“not sure if it's today oR Sat. But scorch is graduating from collage.




Each of Us Must Climb Our Separate Mountain



Each of us must climb our separate mountain
To reach at last our own extended view.
We can be no more than what we are,
Yet that is quite enough for us to do.
The world is far too great for comprehension,
And so we only know what we can know.
But given the abilities we're given,
That's still a long and weary way to go.

Yet on the way, how beautiful the moments!
How good it feels to have some skill or art!
How wonderful to pause in awestruck wonder
At what must fill the unsuspecting heart!

And so we're proud of each of you today
For all you've learned, and all you've tried to learn.
Knowledge brings the deepest satisfaction,
Not least because it's something that you earn

By William Byrd”

“Congratulations Sweets!”

“Aww,.. mapes....


Thank you.”

“Women make better spies - as long as they forget sex

Owen Bowcott
Friday May 21, 2004
The Guardian

Female spies, if not "oversexed", are more effective secret agents than men, according to an internal MI5 history released today. Women, it says, obtain more information when resisting the temptation to sleep with the enemy.

The author was one of the most experienced agent handlers in the security services, Maxwell Knight.

[...]
"There is a very longstanding and ill-founded prejudice against the employment of women as agents," he observes, "yet it is curious that in the history of espionage and counter-espionage a very high percentage of the greatest coups have been brought off by women.

"It is frequently alleged that women are less discreet than men; that they are ruled by their emotions and not by their brains: that they rely on intuition rather than on reason; and that Sex [his capital] will play an unsettling and dangerous role in their work.

"My very own experience has been very much to the contrary. During the present war, MS [Knight's section of MI5] has investigated probably hundreds of cases of loose talk; in by far the greater proportion ... the offenders were men.

"Indiscretions are committed from conceit. Taking him generally, man is a conceited creature while woman is a vain creature. A man's conceit will often lead him into indiscretion in an endeavour to build himself among his fellow men, or even to impress a woman; women, being vain rather than conceited, find their outlet for this form of self-expression in their personal dress, appearance, etc ... "

No officer, he cautioned, should recruit a woman who is "overemotional" or "oversexed".

Full story”

“CIA slogan:

If we don't have it, Chalabi does”

“Hahaha, that is so wrong!”

“I added graduation party pictures to the album.

Not very many were taken on my digital. Mostly used a film camera. No Tree Family in any of the digital pics... wtf?!”

“I think you should send Adriana to Dolly Sods in your place since you can't come, we'll show her the ropes if she doesn't already backpack...”

“I share an office with her.. she's petrified of bugs.”

“lmao!”

“tell her theres no bugs in WV, the artillery practice several years back wiped them all out and they never have come back. ;)”