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That is pretty much how I feel about religion.

Iraqi elephants? Do they have their car bombs in their trunks? In all joking aside I do think that we need to get out of Iraq because we did invade on a false premise and we shouldn't involve ourself in another country's civil war. Sure we should help their government, but we can't and shouldn't spoon feed them. There is a point in which a people must choose their own fate.

Well, for the most part yes. Think on this. Back in ancient Greece homosexuality was not viewed as taboo and there was no social stigmatism for being homosexual. They were treated equaly as everyone else. LOW AND BEHOLD CHRISTIANITY! Suddenly homosexuality is vilified and even today homosexuals do not share the same equal rights as their heterosexual counterparts. Right or wrong, it is how social dynamics works.

Well, to be honest I am taking advocatus diaboli because I do like to argue. Win or lose is irrlevant, it is the argument that matters to me. I think we have taken this argument far enough however, and it has taught me a few things I didn't know before which I am grateful. CHEERS!

Then I see that I am right.

Well, which is more efficient? Give money to someone so they can afford to buy something you sell or keep both the money and what you were going to sell in the first place? Or sell what you have and not give the money to another so they can buy it, so that you have your original money plus the money that you got for selling the item?

Hey, leave the pissed off german kid alone. He'll brain you with his keyboard!

I am saying that we need to make sure we are as self sufficient as possible. Relying on others only opens you up to attack and weakens your position in the long run.

If we are giving them money other countries to buy American goods are we trully making any money off the deal? No. Why not skip the middle man and use that money to go directly into the companies in which those countries are buying from. Have the government invest their resources here at home. By keeping the resources internally we can make sure we don't owe any other country resources, and what we do sell to other nations would go directly to the profit margin.

The guy doesn't know what a barrel shroud is? HA! What a freaking noob.

I think the reason for that is because everyone is trying to open the container or door and are getting into everyone else's way.

If not first, then the second.

Make sure you wear the seatbelt next time.

Why? Its not like there has been anything positive happening with the Fallout franchise since Van Buren died.

If events lead me elsewhere I will deal with it when the time comes, as I always have, however I refuse to live and work in a country I do not know the dominant language. To move into a country to work and live and not speak the native tongue is just rude.

That'll teach him.

So far in my life no one has given a "flying kick at a donut" about my welfare except for me. Everything I have gotten I gotten myself, good or ill. As for Skynet's little rant how I depend on people everyday, I don't. I pay my taxes and my bills which pays for the water and electricity I use, the salary of the police, fire fighters, and military. I paid for my education, my textbooks, and the like. I paid my way through my life.

I guess he forgot about the whole "turning the other cheek" thing.

I meant relative to the rest of the world, since what we consider poor is actually pretty good in other parts of the world. Sorry for any confusion. I don't particularly care too much about the other parts of the world. I don't live in other parts of the world. I live right here in Iowa, United States, and I worry about things that go on in my own backyard than stick my nose in the business of others.

No. I am saying that we aren't rich enough that we cannot take care of our own people who the US government responsibility lies. Once we taken care of things at home to a degree that we have zero homless and everyone has affordable healthcare, and the like, then and only then should we try to help other nations.

It looks like Qara isn't as homicidal/Suicidal any more.

Man, you are making some bold assumptions, Skynet. I am not financially well off for starters. As being the most prosperous nation of the world, if that is the case then we should take care of our own people first so that every child has adequate healthcare. That we don't have mothers who have to choose between which child gets medical care and which child dies. That we don't have people still homeless and living in squalor in our own nation. When we have healthcare for all within our nation, when we have zero homeless and unemployment, then I will consider ourselves prosperous enough to help other nations. The US government first and foremost responsibility is to the care and well being of its own people, not the Iraqis, Chinese, Japanese, Russians, Mexicans, and so forth and so on.

Sheesh... Get a bigger freaking harddrive already.

NO TO PK! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Everything that I have done, everything that I do, and everything I get myself into or out of was done by my hand. I ask for no help, I want no help, and I do my best to be as self sufficient as possible. I do my best not to need anyone's assistance in anything for I have learned that the only person I can truly depend on and trust is myself.