Actually I think the OP linked the wrong event. He probably meant to point to this one

http://www.standupamericanow.org/press-release/2011/01/invitation-dr-terry-jones-international-judge-the-koran-day

"As Facebook and Twitter is being used as a social and communication avenue among the various liberal , socialists and Islamic revolutionaries."

Yeah I mean look he even has a Facebook page for it

Damn liberals

Originally posted by xpowderx

This will be a commercial those of us who are civilians will not see. But for  servicemen here and abroad they get something special! They get to see a very good SUPER BOWL commercial, this:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm32RPve7BA

Its good knowing more military personell can get a jump start on this!

Ok, a FVAP commercial. Big Whoop. We see them all the time.

Your title would suggest that we didn't get that opportunity. We get to vote in all our State or the National elections.

p.s. - I like the hidden bible verse (19 sec mark) in the pen though, creative.

After a 2 second Google search:

"The German (and Austrian) postwar criminal code makes the public showing of the Hakenkreuz (the swastika) and other Nazi symbols illegal and punishable, except for scholarly reasons. It is even censored from the lithographs on boxes of model kits, and the decals that come in the box. Modellers seeking an accurate rendition often have to either stencil on the marking, or purchase separate decals. It is also censored from the reprints of 1930s railway timetables published by the Reichsbahn. The eagle remains, but appears to be holding a solid black circle between its talons. The swastikas on Hindu and Jain temples are exempt, as religious symbols cannot be banned in Germany."

Originally posted by outfctrl

What about trains?  There are no pat downs or any type of security there.

Not yet, but soon.

TSA mulling security measures on trains, boats, public transportation

Originally posted by keglo

"Characters will be allowed to be copied from the Live servers onto the Extended servers, but the option does not exist in the reverse. Extended characters will not be able to move to the Live service."

What sense does this make. They claim that the idea is to attract "Extended" player to the "Live" version, but the "Extended" players will not be able to transfer characters to the "Live" version? That seems totally backwards. If you want them to join Live then let them transfer their character. I for one would not make the move if it meant starting over. 

Don't think this is a permanent thing. That rumor was already floating hours after the original announcment of the Extended servers:

Dave "Smokejumper" Georgeson said:

" The flow of players is one-way right now...but that's not necessarily permanent.

Here's the reasons:

1) We wanted players to be able to copy over and try out the new servers, but didn't want to force them to leave the subscription servers to do so. So we implemented the "copy" process instead of a "transfer".

2) We didn't implement a copy from Extended to subscription for two reasons:

a) We didn't feel that players would want to see characters that "bought their way up" showing up on the subscription servers, and;

b) The copy processes allow really nasty character dupe issues if you can copy both ways.

So, for now, we're only offering copy in one direction.

This is not necessarily permanent. But we'll have to discontinue the copy service first, *and* we'll need to feel that players won't get upset about characters coming from the Extended servers."

Updated today:

 - Added Space tab with  confirmation announcement

- Added "Hope" trailer

- Condensed classes information

- Added Specializations and Associates tabs under professions

- Added Darth hater link to main site and podcast

- Added Mos Eisley Radio podcast

Enjoy!

Originally posted by Dreamorb

Thanks for putting all this together, Baron. It's much appreciated.

No prob, glad I could help!

Today I added links to the companion page, the advanced classes page and linked the new Cinematic Trailer. If you all find anything else we may need to link, let me know.

As always, enjoy!

Originally posted by alextodo

All I can say is DAMN !!! That was awesome.

Ditto.

Hey Lucas, forget about the live action TV series and make a TV show with these kind of cinematics.

Just FYI, the new Pet System has gone live as of 26 May. I updated the title and the link in the OP with the current Patch notes.

Enjoy!

Originally posted by deviliscious

 That is pretty much useless. SCRA not applying to debt incurred during service? That is utter BS. and doesn;t make any sense. Why would they cover their debt prior to service, but not after? That is when they would actually need it. It appears that they are encouraging them to be irresponsible prior to joining and then saying, we aren;t going to help your family while you help us.

That is a pretty crappy law. I guess it is meant to encourage recruitment, but that is it. I do believe we should have something in place, whether it is at the state level or federal level that helps military families during their service. It is the least we can do considering what they do for us.

Actually, there are quite a few programs in the military that help family members in times of peace and war. Financial aid, school loans/scholarships, medical treatment, family support programs for infant to adults, daycare, special events for families with deployed spouses/parents, USO tours and benefits. In my opinion, the military has one of the, if not THE, largest support networks for the military member and their spouses on the planet. The problem is many military members refuse to use it or do not educate themselves to what is available. Its a shame that they don't take advantage of the oppotunities and benefits that are supplied to us, because it is a damn good deal.

Originally posted by Faxxer

if you get busted, you should resign.

This guy was sleeze and this conservative is happy to see him go.

Tell it to a democrat....oh wait, no they'd never resign.

I am Govenor Mark Sanford and I approve of this message

Originally posted by deviliscious

Originally posted by BaronJuJu

Originally posted by deviliscious

There is a Federal law protecting his home, and they are now taking that route to try and get his home back. It was illegal due to the Federal law.

Servicemembers Civil Relief Act Overview

I agree that she was responsible for this happening, but so was the HOA by ignoring the Federal Law.

True Clinical Depression is a mental illness. So yea, this case should be treated as his wife being ill and he being at war.  That would be the same if she had been in the hospital, he being at war.

Sorry, still not covered. They were not under financial hardship, she simply refused to open bills and pay the fee's. She ignored warning after warning for over 6 months. Plus, they never told the HOA that they were military. Again, it sucks but ultimately it is completely their fault. They took no action to remedy anything until after he was home. Plus you als have to realize the SCRA is not an automatic thing, you have to give notice. Military folks can't just buy tons of crap then leave for deployment and not pay for it under the SCRA, it doesn't work like that. You have to apply for the benifit and show why you couldn't pay for it while you are gone. Which brings us back to the whole point that they never told anyone that they were military, never applied for the benefit, failed to pay nto because they couldn't afford it because of a failure to simply open up mail.

Sorry, you are not going to get much sympathy from me or many other military folks on this particular incident. Its a sad case but not a SCRA violation. Now for the real incidents of the violations of SCRA, then the govt should absolutely go after them.

 SO if his wife is diagnosed with Clinical Depression, or other mental illness they would not be covered?

Would the law cover His home if his wife had been in the Hospital?  I too think that the whole " depression" thing seems like a cop out, and I too am wondering how someone could just " ignore the bills" . But if she actually has a real mental illness, that would be considered a real medical issue that would prevent her from being able to do what we would consider " Normal" tasks, that may be another issue all together.

 It is like this couples son living near me, he went most of his life normal, then as an adult mental illness set in. No one that knew him before would have ever guessed this could happen to him.  His deteriorating state started out as not doing small tasks, and has increased to the point he is no longer able to care for himself. He does not even speak legibily now. These things do happen, and should be considered a true medical handicap.

As much as you think it sucks, yes they are not covered. the service meber HAS to envoke the SCRA before this occured, not after.  Also SCRA Does Not Apply To Debts Incurred After Military Service Begins. SCRA is not all it is cracked up to be and is honestly not used that often. If she has a true mental illness then he needs to get treatment for her, but it most likely won't help in the SCRA case.

Originally posted by deviliscious

There is a Federal law protecting his home, and they are now taking that route to try and get his home back. It was illegal due to the Federal law.

Servicemembers Civil Relief Act Overview

I agree that she was responsible for this happening, but so was the HOA by ignoring the Federal Law.

True Clinical Depression is a mental illness. So yea, this case should be treated as his wife being ill and he being at war.  That would be the same if she had been in the hospital, he being at war.

Sorry, still not covered. They were not under financial hardship, she simply refused to open bills and pay the fee's. She ignored warning after warning for over 6 months. Plus, they never told the HOA that they were military. Again, it sucks but ultimately it is completely their fault. They took no action to remedy anything until after he was home. Plus you als have to realize the SCRA is not an automatic thing, you have to give notice. Military folks can't just buy tons of crap then leave for deployment and not pay for it under the SCRA, it doesn't work like that. You have to apply for the benifit and show why you couldn't pay for it while you are gone. Which brings us back to the whole point that they never told anyone that they were military, never applied for the benefit, failed to pay nto because they couldn't afford it because of a failure to simply open up mail.

Sorry, you are not going to get much sympathy from me or many other military folks on this particular incident. Its a sad case but not a SCRA violation. Now for the real incidents of the violations of SCRA, then the govt should absolutely go after them.

Originally posted by deviliscious

 LMAO! What is the messege supposed to be? That Jesus loves the Dinosaurs? That Jesus loves our reptilian ancestors?

Not sure, I couldn't find the one with Jesus on the robot dinosaurs so this had to do.

Ok fine, lets even it out

Originally posted by deviliscious

 I agree that his wife wasn't the most responsible, but it is also ILLEGAL for them to take his home period. He wasn't able to take care of his family here because he was protecting ours. SO yes,  his wife should have been helped through this, whether it be support groups in the community, or sending someone to check on her. If she was severely depressed, someone could have helped her through.  I strongly believe in community responsibility to take care of our military families when they can not be here to do so.

I agree that we should be focusing on cutting wasteful spending, but that better not include sending them broken weapons and rotten ammo to defend themselves as they did before. As long as the cuts aren't going to harm our soldiers, their families, or citizens, bring it on.

We must make cutbacks in the public sector, and Wage caps are in order. The thing is though, even if we completely eliminated ALL departments except medicare, medicaid and Social security.. we still wouldn;t have enough money to pay the bill.

Our military budget is quite small in comparison. Sure make cuts, but all the cuts there are still never going to be enough.

They should have never been allowed to move social security to the general fund, and now we are getting hit with the Baby Boomers and will never have enough to pay for it.

Again, it wasn't illegal. She chose to ignore the letters. The gave notice after notice, she ignored it. No one knew of her issues because she never knew. why? Her failure to open letters. He was still getting paid and the military has an extra allotment just for housing allowance. If this house was given to her and all she had to do was pay $800, that should have been a drop in the bucket with all of the housing allowance he was getting. Plus he gets family seperation pay, hostile fire pay and other allotments ON TOP of his normal pay and allowances.

Now, is it the failure of the community? Possibly, but we have no clue other than the neighbors saying. Did military folks check in on her and ask her if she was doing ok or needed anything? If she said she was fine and didn't need anything then what? Not take her word on it? Based on what?

Sending broken weapons and rotten ammo? What are you talking about? This one incident in a decade long war? The ammo wasn't even used because it was inspected and caught before hand, so I would say it worked. Plus, does this really shock you that the govt looks for the cheap deals like this at times? It shouldn't, govt agencies do it all the time.

I find it strange you want to eliminate all departments exceppt medicare/medicaid and SS...our two largest consumers of federal spending next to the military. If anything THOSE two should be eliminated and return that approx. 40% of our federal spending back to the people.

Originally posted by baff

Originally posted by BaronJuJu

I agree with a temporary halt in foreign aid but you might need to tone down the "leaving military high and dry" drama a bit.

 I sort of feel these two are integrally linked.

That if you cut down on foreign aid, you pull the rug out from under all the work the military is doing to facilitate it.

To some extent yes, our military involvement will have to take a step back an decrease. I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing. However, when we are still handing out checks to countries like Sudan which arguably, has and is continuing to commit one of the worst cases of genocide in recent years, maybe its time to take a look at who we are sending this money to and re-evaluate our priorities. Our two big spenders, Israel and Egypt, should be cut from the teat as well. If they decide to go to war again after that, so be it. Although I think we both know who would win.

Originally posted by deviliscious

Originally posted by BaronJuJu

Secretary of Defense Gates has already put out the warning that he fully intends to cut spending in the military and everything is up for cuts: pay, benifits, weapon systems, everything. He states: "The gusher has been turned off, and will stay off for a good period of time."

As a military member myself I have to agree, when times are tough everything should be up for cuts. If that includes my pay and benifits, to help the country through the tough times so be it.

 Yes, but before we leave this nations most courageous high and dry, we should cut off all foreign aid first, cut all programs not designated by the Constitution, and increase taxes on luxury goods, vacation properties, and any profits leaving the country. We must put OUR citizens first. We already have our soldiers families having their homes taken illegally while they are abroad, and we MUST ensure their families are taken care of while they take care of ours. WHen it comes down to feeding the families of our bravest and sending $900 million to Palestine, which do you think should take priority? BEFORE we cut back our benefits and pay for our soldiers, we should  cap all public sector wages, Mass lay offs in the Public sector, cut back all non essential programs.

It is a matter of priority.

Back from Iraq, Frisco soldier finds home sold by HOA

I agree with a temporary halt in foreign aid but you might need to tone down the "leaving military high and dry" drama a bit. Secretary Gates isn't talking about cutting pay in half or any super drastic measures. He wants to make people in the DoD explain why they need their multi-million/billion dollar budgets for R&D, modernization, standard budgets and empower them to make necessary cuts. Believe me their are tons of ways the military could make budget cuts without touching pay or benefits at all. My suggestion to Sec. Gates would be to go to the Mid-Senior level NCO's in all branches and they would be able to lay out sure fire budgets cuts and cost reduction plans in a heartbeat. We talk about the gross waste in spending quite a bit and it still shocks me to this day that we seem to spend like drunken sailors (no offense to my Navy brothers/sisters) and then whine we are not getting enough. We have plenty, we just have poor spending habits.

Sec Gates is one of the few that you will see taking an honest hard look at their spending and forcing or attempting to force reductions. We all should be doing it, private/commercial sectors, govt agencies, and our personal lives.

As far as that story goes, it wasn't illegally taken...per the story:

"When Michael went to Iraq, I went into a very bad depression," she said.

The mail piled up unopened and Mrs. Clauer missed $800 in payments to her HOA. Then she missed the letters saying the association planned to foreclose.

"I ignored a lot of our bills," she said.

Even after the HOA foreclosed and sold the home at auction, Mrs. Clauer didn't open the letters that said she had six months to get the home back, and that time lapsed, too."

I understand its stressful, my family and I have gone through it several times. But failure to pay and ignoring the mail isn't an excuse or clear claim to call it illegal. Personal responsibility is something stressed over and over in the military and if she was having trouble there are multiple sources and offices that could have helped. I hope they have the opportunity to get their home back, but  they are going to have a tough time on their hands.

*edit - typos, I'm sure there are more.

Originally posted by sif-lawd

Originally posted by Cleffy

I have always been pro-annexation of Mexico, and all of central america down to Panama.  Much smaller border to patrol.

Why do those people not have the right to self-governance? Why do they have to lose their sovereignty? Especially when some of those countries are a lot better at some things than we are?

it's not that, he just likes ripping off Ron White skits to sound cool:

Ron White on "Paying for the War"

Originally posted by Ihmotepp

Im sure Arizona is scared. A State that is going broke catering to illegal immigrants is going to boycott them. Oh noes! 

They are not going broke anymore with that new tax their Govenor just signed in yesterday. I'm sure the Tea Party will be there any minute to protest this...right?