AAAA HA HA HAHA SUCK IT YANUKOVYCH.

[camwyn]

Court rejects Yanukovych appeal

Ukraine's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Viktor Yanukovych against the electoral commission's handling of last month's re-run presidential poll.

The ex-prime minister had wanted the court to make the commission re-examine complaints about the election.

The results - yet to be confirmed by the commission - show his rival Viktor Yushchenko won by two million votes.

The Supreme Court ruling means Mr Yanukovych still has one more chance to appeal against the outcome...

The finish line is in sight. Democracy works- maybe not where it ought to be working, but dammit, it does work.

Deal with it, Yanukovych. The people don't want you.

Comments

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

River. In. Egypt.

[anaid-rabbit.livejournal.com]

The finish line is in sight.
Not if the poison works this time around... >.

[camwyn]

Memo to self: get sample of Yuschenko's DNA now, put in freezer. Also DNA from that kid in Wisconsin who just survived rabies with medical therapy but no vaccine & still has ability to talk. Time to start the One Tough Bastard gengineering project.

[camwyn]

People need to hear 'no' on a regular basis, said by people who mean it and have the ability to make it stick.

[anaid-rabbit.livejournal.com]

We should add Rasputin`s, if there`s any left...

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

I think old Grigori would be a bit too hard to talk to. He was a few sandwiches short of a picnic. Very charismatic, but more than a little wacky.

I would suggest Kirk Douglas, personally. Any man who can be in a helicopter crash one day and then complain the next day about "being a little sore" is a tough son of a gun in my book.

[camwyn]

Oooh, yeah. And the cohort of Kenyan prostitutes who appear to be immune to AIDS.

Possibly Martin Markwell, too, if one considers 'luck' a component of being One Tough Bastard.

[silly-dan.livejournal.com]

Also Jackie Chan, and one or two of those Olympic gymnasts who did near-flawless routines with broken bones.

Possibly this British man (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&e=1&u=/nm/20050107/od_nm/odd_friend_stab_dc) who survived a stab wound to the heart, Phineas Gage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage), or that park ranger who held the world record for surviving lightning strikes.

[camwyn]

The ranger's not as good a deal as he looks. He went into a depression somewhere around strike 5 or 6, and committed suicide sometime after strike 7. I"m not sure if that's neurological damage or just the understandable consequence of being Thor's whipping boy.

Mind you, the genetic material collection is only phase 1 of the One Tough Bastard project. Phase 2 is the resultant child's upbringing. Contrary to the stuff you see in dystopian fiction, I believe the best way to bring about the ultimate survivable human is to give them a good upbringing- one that's regularly tested and tried, but that allows them to build strength and flexibility. An entire lifetime of running and fighting is a fast route to an early death from overwhelming stress hormones.

Similarly, the child has to be raised with decent philosophies. The One Tough Bastard cannot be raised with a survival-of-the-fittest-is-all-that-matters ideology, because it narrows the worldview too much and will eventually get them killed (I'm the fittest, I deserve the best, I didn't think of THAT eventuality, I'm a lovely organ donor). They need to be able to survive the worst that the human race has to offer, and you don't see that happening as much in people who lived lives of unremitting horror and stress. Ideally, the One Tough Bastard would be raised with a lot of philosophical material from people like Terry Anderson and Dietrich Bonhoffer- people who went through Hell and came out of it still themselves, rather than walking masses of emotional scars and hatred.

The One Tough Bastard is the person who can survive anything physical and still function, but it's also the person who can live through horror- and not only not go to pieces, but make it possible for other people to do so as well. They're both Mendelian inheritance and Lamarckian, if you accept that Lamarckian inheritance's rules about the alteration of phenotype apply to behaviour, psychology, and philosophy rather than the physical phenotype.

[camwyn]

But you're right about Jackie. The man breaks, but he gets up and keeps going. That counts for a lot.

... crap, I almost forgot Stephen "I really should've been dead something like twenty years ago, shouldn't I" Hawking.

[drharper.livejournal.com]

I vote we add a little of Viggo Mortenson's DNA for adaptablity, quick learning of physical skills and decency above and beyond the call of duty (not to mention great looks *G*).

[camwyn]

Okay, the One Tough Bastard project is going to get its own post when I get the chance. Later tonight.

[silly-dan.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I forgot that part. (Similarly, the amazing 0.914 blood alcohol Bulgarian's DNA would need to be combined with someone who isn't predisposed to drink nearly that much.)

...here, you're trying to make Doc Savage, aren't you?

[camwyn]

Well, I wasn't...

Seriously, I just wanted to start off with a human who was genetically damn near impossible to kill. And then it occurred to me that genes don't mean much if you've got a horrid upbringing- it's tough for someone to be a real survivor if they hate the world and everyone around them, and anyway the Age of Apocalypse storyline in Marvel featured a tyrant who blithered about survival of the fittest but probably could not have produced people who were fit to survive anything but horrid conditions. (Not to mention that Darwinian 'fitness' is measured in terms of 'how many children did I have who survived to reproductive age and had their own offspring?', which Pocky seemed to forget.) Attempts at producing someone with genetic survival traits in fiction almost inevitably end up giving us either Khan Noonian Singh or something vaguely Hitlerian, plus there was the whole 'Cobra Commander is made from the dna of tyrants and conquerors'... so the ultimate survivable human had to be raised with an eye for not only resilience and toughness, but human decency and compassion.

Besides. Doc Savage is obviously a construct drawn from the psyches of Clark Savage Senior and the Fabulous Five (yes, I know) who only thinks he's been training two hours a day every day his entire life. In actuality he only existed for a few months before the start of The Man of Bronze, and Savage Sr. arranged for his various 'family' members to play along.

[dragonwhishes.livejournal.com]

I know this is going to sound like bragging, but may I pitch in some DNA?

I once fell from a fort/tree house type thingy that was 20/24 feet up in the air, on my stomach, onto a porch made of wood, and did not break anything. I was shaking for a long time afterwards (can you say TERROR with the capitals), but nothing bad happend.

May I also suggest getting some DNA from Albert Einstien, or J.K. Rowling? Both were/are brilliant. If you aren't smart, you'll probably be killed easily, anyway. Forget that you can fight off HIV and have a kick-butt immune system, strong bones and healthy muscles, that'll be obsolete against a gun or a knife. You may get lucky, but there is always the "may" lurking there.