Fear the Rods from God!

[MikeKAY]

Things like this make me smile. (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03209/206344.stm) :)

[Kinetix]

Very Cool!!!

[Vendel]

Watch out Canada :neener:

[8 Ball]

It's stuff like this that keeps me up some nights....

[Stalking Shadow]

This is the "I wonder what'd happen if I dropped a quarter from the Sears Tower, and it hit somebody" line of thinking taken to an entirely new level.

[Poison]

I remember a comic where someone had metal rods in space and wanted to attack Earth with them... was it Luthor and Supes? Or Battle Angel Alita? Not sure.

Anyway, this is sick. Why don't they research needed stuff instead of even more weapons to threaten us all. Another comic I remember said aliens didn't want to meet a species that directs weapons at their own planet and I understand.

[Vendel]

Anyway, this is sick. Why don't they research needed stuff instead of even more weapons to threaten us all.


Cus if we dont someone else will. And there not nice like us.

[Stalking Shadow]

At the risk of sparking debate, here goes:


Cus if we dont someone else will. And there not nice like us.

You mean: "Because if we don't, someone else will. And they're not nice to us like we are."

America, in my opinion, has firmly left "nice nation" status in company with countries like modern Germany, Japan, France, Great Britain, etc. Getting the mandate to wage war on another countries under false pretenses, regardless of what you did with this power afterwards, and give a rousing "F-YOU!" to the international community when they cautioned you against that action, does not make you a nice country.

[MikeKAY]

At the risk of sparking debate, here goes:



You mean: "Because if we don't, someone else will. And they're not nice to us like we are."

America, in my opinion, has firmly left "nice nation" status in company with countries like modern Germany, Japan, France, Great Britain, etc. Getting the mandate to wage war on another countries under false pretenses, regardless of what you did with this power afterwards, and give a rousing "F-YOU!" to the international community when they cautioned you against that action, does not make you a nice country.

To this I will simply say; you would NOT like Rome.

[Kinetix]

This is the "I wonder what'd happen if I dropped a quarter from the Sears Tower, and it hit somebody" line of thinking taken to an entirely new level.

This myth is false...
Once it reaches max velocity (which still isn't enough to break a person skull) it will not increase more.

[Stalking Shadow]

To this I will simply say; you would NOT like Rome.

I dunno. It's nice to live in the nation that's good to itself. It means that you live well at the expense of the other folks who get crushed under the mighty heel of the Glorious Empire. Plus, a lot of great philosophy and literature came out of the Romans, even though it was just Athens: Redux.

I was just calling a spade a spade.

[Poison]

To this I will simply say; you would NOT like Rome.
So you're saying "you would NOT like an empire that existed 2000 years ago"? Kinda weird argument, I think. Not even mentioning that they actually had to kill others mano a mano, face to face, and not by easily pressing some buttons, destroying landscapes and killing dozens and hundreds in the process.

[Solario]

This makes me think, we need to remove America from power, before it's too late.

Who's your leader anyway, Lex Luthor or Vandal Savage?

[Stalking Shadow]

Neither. It's this guy. (http://www.moviecitynews.com/arrays/images/2004/king_kong.jpg)

[The Widowed]

America, in my opinion, has firmly left "nice nation" status in company with countries like modern Germany, Japan, France, Great Britain, etc. Getting the mandate to wage war on another countries under false pretenses, regardless of what you did with this power afterwards, and give a rousing "F-YOU!" to the international community when they cautioned you against that action, does not make you a nice country.
And to think that we could have had Gore or Kerry or maybe even Nader in the Oval Office, but no. Instead, we just had to elect the cute chimp who does neat tricks.

Oh, wait...that's right. He didn't win that first election, did he? But I guess that election didn't count. His brother Jeb saw to that. And the Republicans were sprouting such a chubby to get the Democrats out of the majority...oh, I'm so sick of this two-party BS.

In any other nation, this would be what is normally called a "coup".

As much as I'd like to see both the Republican and Democrat parties be completely abolished so that the Third Parties would have a chance to rise up and fill the vacuum, I guess nothing short of a genie would allow that to happen. Maybe the genie could outlaw lobbyists and corporate bribes...erm, campaign donations while he's at it.

Next election, can we get back to picking the lesser of two evils?

/rant :grr:

Anyway, something about big steel rods from outer space. Your turn.

[Vendel]

HA...I love it when all of you complain about Bush. And America in General.

And yes we here in the United States can give the big "F-you" to the rest of the world. So there.

But it's easy to hate us. Hatieng the USA is what keeps people from seeing there own problems. So go ahead. Lash out at us, we can take it.

Edit: Oh as for starting a debate. Why not. Someone open one up in the correct thread and lets give it a go. the PETA one has run out of steam. Wasnt really a debate. No one likes them

[Poison]

Ah, looked it up. The steel rods in space were indeed used by Lex Luthor in DK2. Batman mentions them.
And V, a little humbleness might be adequate. You (the US) really don't have that big balls. Not just you, North Korea, China... all the maniacs wielding Earth shattering weapons of mass destructions, yelling "bring it on". All of them suck.

[Vendel]

Well P despite everything we still love ya here in the USA. We just can't stay mad at you crazy Euroes.


Canada on the other hand................


As for Humbleness? Well despite everything that had been thrown at him Bush still won. The US despite all the protest around the world still invaded Iraq. And despite what you might read or hear things are not that bad over there.

So yes we can be humble. We just choose not to. :neener:

[Solario]

Hehe apparently. :D

I don't hate USA, as much as I dislike aspects of your culture. I agree that SOME people hate the US, because it deflects attention from their own problems, but I doubt it's everyone. Kind of the problem I think is that America does things to the extreme, and the rest of us critize it, because it's an exduration of our own problems.

(In a JLA cartoon Vandal Savage also used a giant magnet in space to redirect comets towards his targets. Which is kinda like this.)

[8 Ball]

Canada on the other hand................

ohhhh...that's it, no more maple syrup for joo :P.

[Stalking Shadow]

Well, we can always get it from Vermont. Because Vermont's basically Canada, minus good healthcare and a polite population.

(Oh, I loved Canadian Bacon. Anyone else see that one?)

[Esbat]

I have seen and own Canadian Bacon... both the food and movie...

The capital of Canada is Toronto! Why else would they have a baseball team there?

Giant rods from Outer Space... and who said comic books aren't realistic? :shinner:

Btw, America is like the Fonz... we were so cool when we were giving away crap to other nations but the moment we jump the shark a little with Desert Storm 2 the world makes a "Wha!?!"-face. O_o

[Vendel]

Its HAM people...nothing comes from Canada...we just call it canadian bacon to make them feel better








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