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Business Recorder
2 days ago
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PARTLY FACETIOUS: The system is in place so shut up or put up
'Why are you in mourning?' 'The death…' 'Inna Lillahi wainnailaihiraji'un' (we belong to Allah and to him we will return).' 'Hmmmm.' 'What?' 'I was wondering about the relevance of what you said. The reason is, the death I am mourning is not of an individual but of an ideology.' 'What ideology?' 'Democracy.' 'Dear Lord, you are one of those who seek to divide and rule.' 'Excuse me?' 'As our friend Raisani said about his degree – a degree is a degree, fake or not. So my response to you is form 45 or form 47 are forms and there is no need to synchronize…' 'You are being facetious?' 'No. It has been over a year and a half, the system is in place so shut up or put up.' 'The Man Who Must Remain Nameless and Faceless is trying to put up, but his arms have been amputated and…' 'Shut up. Besides, I wasn't referring to our democracy because it's never matured. I reckon in terms of human age democracy is a newborn not even a toddler.' 'Are you referring to democracy in…in….' 'The Europeans are being led not by the largest parties that were voted to power but a coalition….' 'Right wing parties have rightly been sidelined and cases against their leaders are barring them from the next elections…' 'But if that's what their people want, the majority want an end of support for Israel! They don't want to fight Russia and want cheap Russian oil. They want Chinese cheap EVs! They want…' 'People don't know what's good for them. Others much more qualified know…' 'Isn't that a sort of Jirga system?' 'Hallelujah! Welcome to the West: democracy is replaced by Jirga.' 'Took them quite a few centuries…' Copyright Business Recorder, 2025
Yahoo
28-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'9-1-1: Lone Star' Appears to Kill Off Major Character in Episode Ahead of Series Finale
Tommy Vega received some shocking news ahead of the 9-1-1: Lone Star finale. In the Jan. 27 episode, Tommy (Gina Torres) found out she had an inoperable tumor pressing against her aorta. Viewers last see Tommy lying on the couch, leaving it questionable at the end of the episode, which comes one week ahead of 9-1-1: Lone Star's series finale, as to whether she survived after months of unsuccessful chemo treatments. Torres, 55, told TVLine that Tommy will appear in the finale, but she did not confirm in what capacity. Related: Gina Torres Says 'It's Sad' 9-1-1 Lone Star Was Canceled After 5 Seasons: 'Nobody Wants That' (Exclusive) Tommy didn't tell her twin daughters about the diagnosis in the Jan. 27 episode, instead opting to ask them to send selfies when she chatted with them via FaceTime, but her late husband Charles (Derek Webster) showed up in an unexplained fantastical way to give her some guidance. Torres called the reunion, which her character credits to having a stroke, with Webster, 44, 'very emotional.' 'It was hard with this fantastical situation where she isn't sure how much of it is actually happening,' she said to TVLine. 'Modulating that emotionally so that the audience buys it was the toughest part.' The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now! Showrunner Rashad Raisani told Variety he always planned for Tommy to reunite with Charles, who died from an aneurysm in season 2. 'I've said when we did this whole journey with Tommy's cancer and with Gina, the actor, as well is we really were going to have to go all the way,' Raisani, 45, said. 'And a big part of it was also an opportunity in this episode for Tommy to have it come full circle. And to be to be frank, I took a lot of heat for ending the Trevor and Tommy relationship, but part of why we did it is because I knew this was where we wanted to take her character full circle with this love of her life.' The dream-like reunion came from Raisani's own experience with the death of his mom.'My mom, right before she passed, I was in her hospital room, and she was telling me about how her mom and dad had come to visit her that morning. And it was so vivid for her,' he recalled. 'She wasn't saying it as if, 'Oh, they're ghosts.' She was just saying it as if it happened. And then she passed not long after, and it gave her such comfort. And I think that stuck with me.' Raisani also planned to leave that cliffhanger at the end of Lone Star's penultimate episode. 'I hope we left some questions in people's minds that they'll want to come back one more time and see how it ends,' he told Entertainment Weekly. Related: 9-1-1: Lone Star's Rob Lowe Teases 'Insane' Train Derailment Arc in Season 5 (Exclusive) The Jan. 27 episode additionally showed the 126 crew faced with an asteroid that's expected to hit Austin, which star Rob Lowe speculated might make his character, firefighter captain Owen Strand, part of the finale's death toll. "Is there a world where Owen dies heroically? Does he live, does he not? And same for everybody else," Lowe, 60, told EW. "This is a show where it's totally organic on any given day that any one of these characters could have something really bad happen to them. I mean, that's not pushed reality — it's the reality of what first responders go through. So we were debating, 'Do we want to push that button ... and for who?'" Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. The 9-1-1: Lone Star finale airs Monday, Feb. 3, at 8 p.m. on Fox. Read the original article on People
