LongRider

I agree with the Others not controlling the wights, and as for an invasion past the Wall, there have been so few of Others shown on page, makes me wonder if there is enough for any size of an army at all.

Serendipity at its finest! A paw printed glossy photo of the Maggie the Brand Ambassador would be lovely! Yanno, North California is not that far from Vegas, it's a date!

Iowa was in a blizzard at the time, alot of snow and very cold. My sister lives there and confirmed the weather really affected turnout. She's a good Democrat and she happily stayed home. Weather affects turnout, and it did this time.

Really, what was the point of a 'debate' anyway? ABC News cancels New Hampshire Republican primary debate - ABC News (go.com) ABC News and WMUR are canceling their planned Republican primary debate in New Hampshire on Thursday, citing a lack of candidate participation. "Our intent was to host a debate coming out of the Iowa caucuses, but we always knew that would be contingent on the candidates and the outcome of the race," an ABC News spokesperson said in a statement. .... The decision comes shortly after a deadline set by ABC News and New Hampshire TV station WMUR for both former President Donald Trump and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley to respond to their invitations to the debate by Tuesday afternoon. Neither campaign confirmed they would attend.

Your fanfiction is so boring.

Let them fight! Well, what is the wightification process though? How do the run of the mill wights behind Wall go from being dead to being walking dead? Are they associated with the Others or not? It's not clear how wights get animated, and if they are actually under Other control. Who controls Coldhands? The CotF know some about him, and that's where we get our info on him. Is it accurate? All these dead heads running around and hardly anything is known about them.

Burn them!

Snow fell here for a short time. It was snow mixed with rain, and for a while there, the snowflakes were big fat ones. It's just a light rain now.

Rain, rain, rain!

I see Beric & LSH as fire wights and Coldhands as an ice wight, nothing earth shattering about this of course. A while back I put together a look-see at wights and this is what I came up with: According to George R. R. Martin, Beric is no longer a living being after his first death; his heart does not beat and blood does not flow through his veins. In Martin's own words, Beric is "a wight animated by fire instead of by ice".[33] Beric Dondarrion......raised by Thoros....continues to fight for Robert Barathian, with the BWB Cat Stark/Lady Stoneheart......raised by Beric. LS and Beric became 'wight(s) animated by fire' both continue the same sort of action as when they died...BD fighting for Robert....LS killing Freys (she killed Jinglebell) ********** Coldhands......***Coldhands: Once the heart has ceased to beat, a man's blood runs down into his extremities, where it thickens and congeals ... His hands and feet swell up and turn as black as pudding. The rest of him becomes as white as milk............Bran: They'll kill him. Leaf: No. They killed him long ago. *** Dressed in greys and blacks with a black scarf hiding his face, he appears to be a member of the NW. He refers to Sam as "Brother!" and saves Sam, Gilly and the babe from a wight attack at Whitetree, interestingly in the haunted forest. If Coldhands was indeed a ranger of the NW, it seems he continues to range. However, we don't know if Coldhands has his own agency or is controlled by someone else. Robert Strong.....mysterious Knight brought in by Qyburn. A giant of man he becomes a King's Gaurd and is Cersei's personal gaurd. Huge, 8 ft tall, silent, doesn't eat, drink or use privy. A revenant, believed to be raised by necromancy by Qyburn, who may have used the dead Gregor to raise the mysterious Robert Strong. Like Gregor Clegane he is to be Cersei's champion at the end of her current trial. However, while the wights behind the Wall are also ice wights, what their animating force is I cannot say. Definitions: wight...animated corpse controlled by an outside entity or force. Just a few random thoughts.

Noah was just too embarrassed to admit that the damned dinosaurs ate them.

You had one started?

The word 'murky' just doesn't get used enough in this world.

Tell us!

Heretic! If you had been touched by His Noodely Appendage you would have been singing its phrases! Into the Garbage Grinder of Liars with you!

Some states just require that the voter be registered, and party affiliation doesn't matter.

How many more 'good wights' are out there?

Cold Hands, I don’t have a favorite theory for him, just mostly don’t want him to have some secret identity. I do hope that if GRRM resolves his identity or origin, it’s done with an original idea, not a secret identity rehash.

The law back then: Partus sequitur ventrem Beginning in the Virginia royal colony in 1662, colonial governments incorporated the legal doctrine of partus sequitur ventrem into the laws of slavery, ruling that the children born in the colonies took the place or status of their mothers; therefore, children of enslaved mothers were born into slavery as chattel, regardless of the status of their fathers. This law was not about citizenship, but who was and was not an enslaved person. A child born to a free black woman, was free, and not a slave because the mother was free. Birthright citizenship is a little different: Birthright citizenship is guaranteed to most people born on U.S. territory by the first part of the Citizenship Clause introduced by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (adopted July 9, 1868), which states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." This to me this indicates that Haley is an US citizen, by birth.

Oh noes! Haley is an anchor baby? Gawd these people make me sick.

Never heard this one before, it did make me bang my head on the desk though.

And unlike Trump, she is not due in court anytime soon.

Never heard of the Hudson Hawk before, sounds bitter! Brrrrrrrr...........

Christianity definitely believes in hell. How could they have an all loving gawd w/o hell? I'm only familiar with Christianity, as I was raised Catholic. (which at age 18 I walked away from and never looked back)

And dangerous, don't forget dangerous.