Alex Dieatrick

Love is the final fight - John Perkins

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@Ike_Saul I realize it can go on overboard nowadays but do you really think a five year old should be going unsupervised to a large body of water when accidental drowning is a leading cause of death in children?

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@Ike_Saul Nah don’t apologize. That was valid.

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@SenRandPaul @oxfinthesip lol yes you did, you licked trumps boot the whole way along

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@TrevorSheatz Don’t call inventing sins Biblical. God never said anything about being trans. He did have a lot to say about how you treat others with love, teachings you ignore. You have set up your right wing political beliefs as god, based on the culture you grew up in and let it harden you.

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@ElderScrolls @f_mekki Please don’t make the update small. It needs serious work to become stable.

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@ramit That’s what’s up 🙌

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@ramit Not until I saw burrata then yes 🙌

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@terrier817 @RandalRauser @natebargatze "If nine people sit down at a table with one Nazi without protest, there are ten Nazis at the table."

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Remembering Don S. Davis - Hammond of Texas

My earliest memory of Don S. Davis is of a charming, bigger-than-life individual who greeted me with a hardy handshake and a boisterous “Hellooo, Jooooe! Welcome to Stargate!” on one of my very first days on set. This was back in season four, sometime between our second script (Window of Opportunity) and our third (Point of No Return). In those early years, Paul and I spent most of our days in our respective offices, writing, spinning or, in one inspired afternoon, creating the lyrics to the Stargate SG-1 theme. We were busy and, most important of all, we wanted to look busy. The last thing we needed was to be seen hanging around set, gawking at the actors when there were scripts to be written, brilliant ideas to be spun. But several weeks in, it became apparent to me that sitting alone in my office (or, occasionally, Paul’s office for a little variety) would inevitably drive me nuts – and the loss of my sanity would no doubt be reflected in the quality of my work. So I decided to start taking little walks. Pitch document or outline in hand, I would pace – up and down the corridors, in and around the building, and through the empty sets.

Except for one afternoon when I inadvertently strolled onto an active set where they were setting up for the next shot. Realizing my error, I immediately turned on my heels, prepared to march right back out when Brad Wright spotted me and called me over. “Joe,”he said, “I’d like you to meet Don Davis. Don, Joe is one of our new writers.” Don, who’d been standing by, waiting for that next shot, threw me his trademark ear to ear grin, gave me a firm handshake and bellowed “Hellooo, Jooooe! Welcome to Stargate!”

“Hellooo, Jooooe!” It was a greeting I’d come to associate with the man, a good-natured, self-deprecating southern gent who always had a story to tell but, more than anything, always wanted to hear how YOU were doing. “Hellooo, Jooooe! How’s that script coming along?”. “Hellooo Jooooe! How was lunch?” “Hellooo, Jooooe! How was your weekend?” Meeting actors for the first time can be a little daunting, especially for a newbie writer on his first big show, but Don’s down-home warmth and cordiality put me instantly at ease. And it was no different when he met the fans. I’ve seen convention-goers approach him with trepidation, perhaps fearful of overstepping their bounds and imposing upon him. But Don was never the type to be stand-offish or put himself on display. When you met Don, you weren’t meeting a t.v. star – you were meeting a regular guy. A regular, modest, kind-hearted guy who genuinely cared for his fans and the people he worked with. And, inevitably, those convention-goers who had, moments before, cautiously approached the man they knew as General Hammond would, moments later, be sitting, chatting and laughing, in conversation with good old Don.

If there’s one thing I’ll always remember about the man, it was his willingness to put others before him. Back when Rick was reducing his workload to spend more time with his young daughter, and the writing department was scrambling to come up with in-story reasons for O’Neill’s off-world absences, Don came up to the offices and offered a solution. “Have Hammond step aside and let O’Neill be General,”he suggested. I was floored. Here was a guy, perfectly willing to walk away from a plum role as a regular on a hit series, just to (in his mind) make it easier on everyone else. Of course we thanked him for his kind offer, but we weren’t willing to let George Hammond go just yet.

Ultimately, the decision was made for us when health issues curtailed Don’s involvement in the show. But even so, he continued to maintain a presence in the Stargate universe, popping up in occasional episodes and then in his final appearance in Stargate: Continuum. And every time he was on set, he would always make it a point to drop by the office to say hello.

As the years wore on, I saw less and less of Don. Still, I’d run into him now and then and whenever I’d inquire about him, he was always upbeat. There was never a trace of bitterness or remorse that he was no longer a regular presence on the show. “I have no regrets,”he’d told me on more than one occasion. And, always: “I’m the luckiest man in the world.” It was a wild, fun-filled ride and, finally, it was time for the southern gent to settle back and enjoy his retirement.

The last time I spoke to Don was when he called me up out of the blue after being tipped off that I’d mentioned him in a blog entry. In answering a fan who wanted to know why I didn’t keep in touch with Richard Dean Anderson, I responded: “We don’t talk a lot for the simple reason that he no longer works on the show. I don’t really talk to Don Davis that much and I love the guy. It’s nothing personal.” Less than twenty-four hours later, I got the call. “Ah luuv yoou tooo,“came that familiar low, Southern drawl. He‘d been tipped off to what I’d written and wanted to touch base. “It’s always great hearing from my fellow gourmand,”I’d written. “Apparently, 2007 was a busy year for him (which is great to hear), and he’s now enjoying some much-needed downtime." I'd expressed the hope that we would soon be able to get together for another culinary excursion. Sadly, that day would never come.

In my many years at Stargate, I’ve worked with actors whose company I have greatly enjoyed, but only a few would I actually be bold enough to call my friends. And among those few was the magnanimous southern gent who used to greet me with that familiar “Hellooo, Joooe!”, the always affable Don S. Davis.

He is truly missed.

(One of my favorite pictures of Don I snapped of him, happily eating chocolate in my office.)

[Alex Dieatrick @faithfromreason]

@RandalRauser Curious if you saw his convo on homosexuality with Allie Beth Stuckley?

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@lauren_w67 There is. I’m no lawyer but I’m pretty sure the Good Samaritan Act would cover her. TV often makes up things like this for the plot but she would likely be fine irl

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@IGN Stargate is huge, wtf do they mean not broad appeal. Worst decision ever.

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@PrimeVideo Uncancel Stargate and keep the OG creators!

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@UESP_net Speak while the sands are warm.

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of waste is laughable in the face of this. The idea the Republican party cares about the deficit when they are almost entirely responsible for it is laughable. We should spend our money saving and improving lives rather than taking them. (3/3)

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The Iran war cost $11 billion in the first 6 days according to the Pentagon. SNAP yearly costs $100 billion. USAID costed an average of $23 billion yearly when it was in operation. Trump proposed a massive increase of the already extremely bloated military budget by
(1/3)

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500 BILLION, a 50% increase in a year from about $1 trillion. Even before this proposed increase, our military budget is 40% of the entire world’s military spending and more than the next 9 countries COMBINED. The idea that SNAP or USAID is any significant source (2/3)

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@NeilShenvi That’s like saying the KKK would face less resistance if it separated itself from racism. That is its entire thing. A nationalist movement is inherently about worldly power and “outsiders vs insiders”. Antithetical to Jesus teaching that everyone is our neighbor.

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@queenie4rmnola @Blake_Allen13 I’m sorry for any of that you’ve experienced. I do believe, looking at their profiles, most of the online people doing that are MAGA trolls and bots trying to stir trouble and engagement, pretending to be Talarico supporters.

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@RandalRauser Isn’t the argument that no one dies for something they know to be a lie? Other martyrs don’t know but presumably the apostles aren’t in that positions since the claims they made of Jesus resurrection are either a lie or true since they were there unlike other martyrs.