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[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]The WHO has just announced that the Swine Flu, or H1N1 now deserves the title of pandemic. But you wouldn't know that if you just read the normal headlines would you? [URL="http://www.pandemicflu.gov/"]Voila[/URL][/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]Well, I for one would be happy to see this film, if only the trailer didn't fill me with disgust. This is possibly because I object to the stereotype that black people can only be princesses and princes in, oh, New Orleans. As I recall there's this enormous continent over some...where... where there were a great many royalties, only unlike this movie, they didn't wear off the shoulder pouffy dresses. Or it's because I object to being told in no uncertain terms that a movie is going to be great because an amphibian told me. I wouldn't call this movie RACIST in the sense that they're all possessed of afros and are scarfing down Popeyes chicken. But I would say that Disney is phoning it in and going for the easy way out. Voodoo doctor. Swamp. Oh yes, and I agree about Mulan. But there would've been no bad guy except that evil army somewhere if they'd stuck to the poem. She would've had the support of her parents, and fooled the Imperial soldiers the entire time, then gone home happy and that would've been the end of it. Granted she'd also kick a lot more ***.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][CENTER][FONT="Times New Roman"]I find it's somewhat disingenuous to only include the hate groups comprised of white people, unless your focus is only on the people that hate the US that are racist against black people. How about the New Black Panther Party? Led by Malik Shabazz, the most anti Semetic, anti White, jerk to ever wear a beret and get in front of a microphone and exhort his fellow Black Panthers to terrorize people voting in Philadelphia. Or we could talk about the home grown Muslim terrorists sent to private radical Muslim based schools that were raised being taught that America and Israel are the progeny of Satan and all infidels within those two countries must die. I find that just as disturbing as group of white people stuck in the pre Civil Rights era. Perhaps more disturbing.[/FONT][/CENTER][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]Allow me to reiterate the thread title. He doesn't know anything about cars. He doesn't know anything about the car business. He might know how to structure and work on a telecommunications business to make it successful. Does he have the right instincts that'll lead him to make informed and intelligent decisions about which cars will be attractive to the consumer or will he listen to a few dozen advisers and then give permission for cars to be produced by committee?[/FONT][/COLOR]

[INDENT][COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]I disagree. I find if someone doesn't have good instincts about a business to start with, it's going to be a very sharp learning curve to pick up and save a company with. GM is floundering just fine on the government read: TAXPAYER money without waiting around for him to choose advice that may or may not be pertinent to the issue. And yes, the government has bought out GM in an effort to 'save it' from it's own faulty business model. It is now owned entirely by the government. I ask you how legal that is but there you have it.[/FONT][/COLOR][/INDENT]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]So the new CEO of GM, or as I call them now 'government motors' admits to knowing absolutely nothing about cars. Mr. Whitacre that is. Is that a white last name or what? But he'll now be making all the big decisions about the car company the government has recently acquired. [URL="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aQ._YJhEj_Jo"]Behold...The new CEO of GM, leading us into a brave new world of...Yugos![/URL] I can't say that I'm thrilled about this choice. He claims to know about employees and big businesses, but if you know all that and still have no idea how to decide whether a car design is a good idea or not, you're probably better off sticking to what you know. I.E. The man who buys a candy store and knows nothing about what kinds of candy people want to buy still thinks he can run a candy store by stocking it with nothing but, oh, candy corn. Are we happy about this? Do we really want to own a car produced by the government? [/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]So I was in the theater the other night, senses trying desperately to recover from the Nickelodian fueled assault when the preview for this movie came on: [URL="http://www.astroboy-themovie.com/"]Holy Crap[/URL] I had no idea it was coming. It comes out this year. I don't even know what to feel yet besides a certain...nostalgia?[/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]It's mildly amusing that Bill Gates has to tell that to people who will soon be limited by the tax code as to how much they can give to charity and have it still be tax deductible. I believe in charity for charity's sake myself, not because the government will smile upon you for doing it. I also believe welfare is one big 'charity' system designed to force everyone to give up their money without their consent. Kinda like theft. If I were a billionaire I would hire a trustworthy financial adviser that doubled as a CPA. Then I would buy and furnish four bedroom one story house in San Luis Obispo, then invest the rest of my money elsewhere and tithe monthly. My routine of giving blood every 45 days or so and volunteering at a local church would not change.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[quote name='Ace'][FONT="Comic Sans MS"] I mean like the punks you hear about on he news who off a guy for saying something dirty about their mother.[/FONT][/QUOTE][COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]Your mom is a classy lady.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]Christians and Catholics don't necessarily equal each other because of theological difference which are somewhat stark, and while the lines are occasionally muddy, it's enough of a difference for a lot of people to call them by different names. i.e. there are several Catholics on the US supreme court and they're called Catholics, not Christians. It's their Right and Choice to carry a gun to church if they want to. There is no reason why they can't, or shouldn't if they want to do it. And for us to sit in self righteous satisfactory judgment, secure and comfortable in our disdain for others seemingly strange choices is embarrassing.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[quote name='Ace'][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]And on a final gun safety note, anyone who shoots someone in cold blood should be struck across the face by the handle of their own firearm.[/FONT][/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrchid"][LEFT][FONT="Times New Roman"]But anyone who shoots someone in the heat of the moment should be cuddled and given candy canes and lollypops. Not a very penetrating statement there except to make the assertion, perhaps, that anyone who shoots someone in cold blood must be a bad person and not doing it in defense of someone else, or their own safety. Also, if John is tired of Christian patriots, he should probably also be tired of Catholic patriots, Asian patriots, and black patriots and a lot of the other patriots in America that carry guns. That statement does nothing but to highlight the sheer ignorance and prejudices people have against a certain group who for the most part doesn't do anyone else harm. I find that statement exceedingly offensive and as a Christian who for the most part likes to believe herself to be proud to be a relatively free American and not an oppressed 'citizen' of a third world country I can only express my contempt for someone who is 'tired' of my kind. [/FONT][/LEFT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]That and creme brulee. To be honest, I really don't care what you think Rick about what I think of Heath Ledger, and half of what I said had absolutely nothing to do with you. This may be a shock but you're not quite that important to me. Also Al, we lose everyone eventually because the majority of the ones being lost are all at the right age. Cyclical. You'll get over it. In time nobody will even remember they're dead, there will just be the truth of the signal.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][RIGHT][FONT="Times New Roman"]Oh you're such a boob. I never said he was not as good as Heath Ledger. I said that he was older and as such his death wasn't quite as tragic. I was never a Heath Ledger fan because I, for some reason, prefer the slightly more edgy masculine manly types that aren't gay cowboys, makeup wearing cross dressing nurses, or pretend knights. Good lord people, get a grip on yourselves. I think it makes his death cooler because it a: wasn't a suicide and b: was recreational and involved a rope. Besides, sure he's 72, but plenty of older people know which end of a gun to put in their mouths. It's ignorant to assume he wouldn't figure out how to properly kill himself dead.[/FONT][/RIGHT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]It means he wasn't young, boyishly handsome, and still looking forward to a life that contained a considerably longer space of time than the freshly departed. And in Thai newspapers, the police call what happened to him 'death by kinky sex.' Which as deaths go, could be a lot worse.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[quote name='chibi-master']AWW! But summer rain is the best part about summer![/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]Agreed. The smell of wet pavement is one of the best smells in the world to me. That and fresh leaf mold and whatnot. In the really hot weather I freeze clusters of grapes to eat and turn out all the lights except my computer and turn on the overhead fans as our house has no AC. Darn that was a long sentence.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]Well it's not like he was Heath Ledger or anything. 72 is old [er]. I'm not particularly sad though. He's in television and movies, so he's already immortal. And I'll always laugh when I remember his package shipping commercials. Yellow pages? I can't even remember now. But Kill Bill will live on, as will everything else he did. The man was great. As to the cause of his death, I'm now vastly curious. They say he was found hanging in his hotel room by his neck. But they swear that the hanging was "natural causes." This begs the question. Is suicide a natural cause? Was he in the middle of some auto erotic asphyxiation? Did he panic? The articles say he was once suicidal but wanted to move on in life.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]While late term abortions are still legal [why] in Kansas, just remember that this man would be a criminal if he'd been in any of the other 30 or so states that have in fact banned this procedure. So in other words this guy jumped the gun when he shot the 'poor brave little abortionist' because sooner or later Kansas was going to pass a partial birth abortion ban too.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="times new roman"]I never said it was right to kill him. And I never said that the man who killed him was doing a good thing. Yes, I object to his occupation and yes it was bad that he was shot instead of allowed to die of more natural causes like car crash, heart attack, chocolate, etc. It's bad that someone acted out of their own sense of morality and shot him. He'll in turn either be subjected to capital punishment or thrown in prison where he'll most likely suffer horribly in front of cable television and the internet.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]In other words the guy who was shot was a great family man who loved children and was an upright moral Christian who condemned murder but only in the advisory capacity. And politician's beliefs have nothing to do with their job. Or priests. That's not sad or creepy at all. [/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="times new roman"]My occupation doesn't involve the termination of viable fetuses already in the third trimester.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][RIGHT][FONT="Times New Roman"]Maybe it's because your argument was so twisted and incomprehensible that it staggered the mind that you would be even a little surprised one would have difficulty understanding precisely which 'pro life' 'pro war' republicans you're talking about. The man killed was a late term abortionist. In other words he practiced partial birth abortions, which involve the destruction of the infant's brain by crushing the skull and sucking out the brain matter with a vacuum while the infant's body still remains inside the mother so to keep the 'abortion' within legal definitions because once the head is removed the child's been 'born.' Call me crazy, but I'm somehow summoning up difficulty feeling sorry for such a morally bankrupt individual. Not that I think killing him was the right idea, but testicle crushing might've been.[/FONT][/RIGHT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]I dunno Kitty, why do pro environment anti terrorism liberal groups use violence to advance their causes? Why do they threaten and assassinate bio medical doctors? Why do they blow up housing projects and hurt innocent people? That argument is foolish and you assume that Republicans do not condemn the Christians who kill abortionists. Perhaps this is a result of you not reading much but all of the major figureheads like Dr. Dobson, the Minority leader of the House, and so on and so forth have said plenty about these kinds of people. Maybe it's because people who love to judge the crazy right wing radicals are incapable of reading anything produced by a Republican, or maybe it's because your idea of what the world is really like just can't be bothered with the truth. Yes it's terrible that abortion clinics and doctors are being blown up, shot, etc. Yes it's terrible that these doctors are breaking their Hippocratic oath. Well here's a newsflash. The world is basically ****. What a surprise.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]So here's the pictures of me mostly from Fanime. The first pictures are in my Dion Rogers Rinoa costume by Eurobeat King [cosplay.com's ruler]. The second is from a Vampire Knight gathering. RimaXShiki. Enjoy everyone. ........drat, have to resize the Rinoa ones. Oh yes, the other girl is also a Rima, but I have no idea.. ....why...she's...posing like that.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[FONT="Times New Roman"][COLOR="DarkOrchid"]So after hearing this phrase literally EVERYWHERE it's occurred to me that I have no idea what the term 'rickrolling' means. So if any of you would care to give me your definition that'd be super. And have you ever been rickrolled in a manner that actually resulted in you using that word in particular? Ways I've heard it used so far: "So Nancy Pelosi totally rickrolled us here on the internet, the stupid...[etc.]" "Dude, Pikachu hella rickrolled Charizard" [/COLOR][/FONT]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]My car is characteristically clean most of the time with the only messes really being the receipts from food places stuffed into the side panels of my doors. [LIST] [*]chapstick [*]In glove box: [*]registration and insurance [*]a few million napkins [*]small box of ten razor blade replacements [*]instruction manual [*]In trunk: [*]1-2 cases of water [*]CD case and 6 disc CD player [*]empty crate for storage [*]spare wheel and tools [*]survival kit contained inside a sport water bottle [/LIST][/FONT][/COLOR]