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Ragitsu

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  1. Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?
  2. Re: A Thread for Random Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd6n_5XKVxo
  3. Re: Ctrl+V http://forum.surfermag.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=2205731&page=0&fpart=all&vc=1
  4. Re: Ctrl+V http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DirtyCop
  5. Re: Rogues...and Soldiers...and Assassins...and...Gallery (Dark Champions Art)
  6. Re: Ctrl+V http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hooped
  7. Re: Ctrl+V was a madman that drafted child soldiers, threatened the world with nuclear destruction, and threatened the world by holding OILIX as ransom.
  8. Re: Ctrl+V M83 We Own the Sky
  9. Re: Ctrl+V http://picturearchive.gunauction.com/6373195730/3460271/m83.JPG
  10. Re: Ctrl+V It's been a long time since I've seen that episode, but I feel moved to respond anyway. Go figure! In the beginning of the series, the argument was made that is was Earth's responsibility to support and defend those of our citizens that have been stolen and exploited by our enemies. That gives our teams the moral right to free slaves and take sides between the Goa'uld and the Jaffa. Here, there is no enemy of Earth to oppose. Put aside our own feelings about the issue that split this community, and look at the bare facts. Alar's side started the the war because they be hatin'. The people in the stasis pods, they be hatin', too. They have demonstrated they are not willing to live and let live with the "breeders" because the breeder's way of life is unacceptable to them. They will not cease the killing of their enemy even when their utter destruction is in sight. That is how they roll. The gate is on Alar's side. If I am remembering correctly, There is no way to make contact with their enemy in good faith. There is no communication route through which they can broker peace. They burned that bridge long ago. Come hell or high water, one side or the other is gonna win! You suggest that our government continue to invest time and money to save these people from their own just desserts. Do you really think they will stop the fighting at Earth's request? Or will they find sneaky reasons to justify continued attacks, which means we are not saving lives, but only tipping the balance so the deaths will be tallied on the other side? Will the enemy accept a cease fire, and give them the time to recuperate, to gain enough strength to start the fighting all over again? Or if they stop fighting, will the Breeders take their opportunity to decimate them once and for all? Despite all the budget problems on the government's shoulders, lets say we are going to save Alar's people. We will move them to an unoccupied and unpoisoned planet. How are they going to feel when they realize that those whom they declared enemies long ago, and our people are virtually indistinguishable? That WE hold to tenets they find repugnant and unacceptable? And that any other people they deal with in the wide universe will be pretty much the very same way? Will they put up and shut up? Welcome the idea with open arms? At what point does propaganda become cultural identity? Stripped of their history, their ideology, forced to endure the indignity of being judged to be in the wrong by our values, and so be forced to compromise their core beliefs to receive our charity, what is it we will have fought so hard to "save?" And by the way, after all that, our government is on the hook to save the other side, too! I guess what we are left with is this: They know they are at an end. With or without us, it's time to either surrender or die. We do not have the right to come in and dictate our morality to these people. We do not have the right to support one side of the fight and not the other, just because that's the side we can see. It's not fair. It's their lives on the line, it's their choice to make. And I think they have already made their choice.
  11. Re: Cool Guns for your Games The Medusa Model 47 is a revolver capable of firing different calibers of bullet.
  12. Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore I'm actually eager to try that shrimp recipe, and will let you know how it goes once I do.
  13. Re: Ctrl+V Happy Birthday!
  14. Re: I have a dream. (and MAN was it wierd!) The first part of my dream involved a sizable estate (including a lower level of elevation), and what possibly was a subtle alien invasion. The second part involved me getting a hold of this brass/copper wire, and then obtaining two supernatural abilities: the ability to share a body and/or mind with someone else, and the ability to teleport with significant concentration. For some reason, I was paired up with a pregnant woman that seemed familiar. I recall one "scene" had me in control of her body one point, but we were, for some reason, on the way to a hospital following an accident.
  15. Re: Alternate History Trooper Loadout? Automatic shotguns may just be niche enough to qualify .
  16. Re: Ctrl+V http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperSenses
  17. Re: Ctrl+V http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%27s_Diner
  18. Re: Ctrl+V http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/?p=10839
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