this is fairly appropriate right now

dude, I don't understand your posts. Assuming the US has saved the world countless times, why would you "hate to admit that"? Do you hate the United States? Would this be a cause for embarrassment?

I am very bad at history but
lol

i think you're seriously underplaying some things here. we have a long history of being places we do not belong. just saying we "acted on misinformation" is a gross understatement. we've been at war with Iraq for years; 200,000+ civilian casualties. not to mention all the people in pakistan we've killed

and whose ass have we saved?? im confused.

NUKE EM, DAMN YOU US OF A ARE CRAZY SON OF BITCHES. YOUS AND YOUR MILITARY ARE SO HARDCORE. LOL.

US States are so obsessed when they themselves are also a threat to other nations, if North Korea is replaced by none other then Obama Bin Laden.

SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- North Korea launched a long-range rocket Sunday in what U.S. and South Korean officials deemed a provocative act.
A recent satellite image shows a rocket sitting on its launch pad in northeast North Korea.

While the United States and South Korea confirmed the rocket launch, the payload of the rocket remained unclear. North Korea has said the rocket was to carry a satellite into space, but the United States, South Korea and other nations fear it could be a missile with a warhead attached.

"With this provocative act, North Korea has ignored its international obligations, rejected unequivocal calls for restraint, and further isolated itself from the community of nations," U.S. President Barack Obama said in a statement.

"We will immediately consult with our allies in the region, including Japan and (South Korea), and members of the U.N. Security Council to bring this matter before the Council," Obama added. "I urge North Korea to abide fully by the resolutions of the U.N. Security Council and to refrain from further provocative actions."

A senior Obama administration official in Washington confirmed that the rocket did clear Japan.

Japan's chief Cabinet secretary told reporters after the launch that the country's military was not forced to intercept any missiles, which it had pledged to do if necessary.

Preliminary data show that two objects, likely boosters from the rocket, apparently fell around Japan, one in the Sea of Japan and one in the Pacific Ocean.

The rocket -- launched at about 11:30 a.m. local time on Sunday (2:30 a.m. GMT) -- was a "provocative act in violation" of U.N. Security Council resolution on North Korea's weapons program, Fred Lash, a State Department spokesman, told reporters.

An October 2006 resolution condemned North Korea for missile launches in the summer and a nuclear test that same month. Video Watch the debate about what North Korea is allowed to do »

The office of the South Korean president condemned the launch, calling it a "serious threat" to world peace, the state-run Yonhap news agency reported.

"We cannot withhold our regrets and disappointment that North Korea has caused such a serious threat to peace on the Korean Peninsula and in the world by firing a long-range rocket when the entire world is joining efforts to overcome the global economic crisis," Lee Dong-kwan, a presidential spokesman said, according to Yonhap.

On Friday, Obama reiterated that the United States strongly opposes any such launch.

"We have made it very clear to the North Koreans that their missile launch is provocative, it puts enormous strains on the six-party talks and that they should stop the launch," Obama said while on a stop in France.

Obama warned that the United States will join with its allies to take "appropriate steps" to let North Korea know it can't violate United Nations rules and get away with it.

Earlier Sunday, before the launch, South Korea's national security council called an emergency meeting amid concerns that a North Korean rocket launch was imminent, a presidential spokesperson said.

Also, Japan's representative to the United Nations, Yukio Takasu, sent a letter requesting an urgent Security Council meeting in response to the launch. The letter to Claude Heller, Mexico's representative and the current security council president, was sent minutes after news of the launch broke.

Western nations fear that North Korea plans a ballistic missile test rather than a satellite launch, but the Obama administration's special envoy to the six-party talks, Stephen Bosworth, said last week that it didn't matter if the North Koreans were trying to put a satellite in space or testing a ballistic missile that could threaten Japan or the United States.

"Whether it is a satellite launch or a missile launch, in our judgment makes no difference. It is a provocative act," Bosworth said.

Bosworth said the U.S. stands ready -- after a launch -- to participate in United Nations deliberations on new sanctions against North Korea.
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U.S. Rep. Howard Berman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued a statement late Saturday.

"It is alarming that North Korea carried out this missile launch in direct defiance of the international community," Berman said. "The test is an unnecessary provocation that raises tensions in the region, and I urge the North Koreans to stop using their missile and WMD programs to threaten their neighbors and the rest of the world."

you guys are really fucking talented no lie

edit: i want a tshirt with the album art on it. i'd pay like 15 bucks!!

I just saw "Knowing" on sunday, and jesus christ what a ripoff.

I went in expecting crap (it's a Nick Cage movie) and was pleasantly surprised when the movie had really awesome scenes, like when the airplane comes from out of nowhere and crashes right behind Nick Cage. Pretty awesome. The effects and everything were done really well. Then the plot twist comes, and everything starts making sense, and you find out this whole time you've been buying into metaphors and imagery all very well disguised. It's a fucking christian movie. If you thought Signs was bad, this will blow your mind. THe last half hour of the movie loses all subtlety. Suddenly there are angels flying around, the garden of eden story is retold, and I shit you not, there is an actual tree of knowledge in the movie.

I really would've enjoyed this movie much more if they could've either went all in the christianity bs, or left it out. At one point I actually thought a reincarnation of Jesus might show up. Terrible movie.

Yeah the game refuses to run under WINE in ubuntu. It shows the Direct x 10 screen but then crashes when it tries to change the screen resolution