I'm watching Team America for Independence Day tonight. In honor of the scud.

The North Koreans are just trying to get their ass kicked now...

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"the height of arrogance is the height of control of those who create God in their own image"

I love that movie. I actually have the soundtrack. In fact, I think I might post some of it in honor of this special day since you made me think of it. Any requests?

I have the soundtrack too

Awesome. Freedom is a buck o five.

I'm So Ronery Lyrics

I'm So Ronery
I'm so ronery
So ronery
So ronery and sadry arone

There's no one
Just me onry
Sitting on my rittle throne
I work very hard and make up great prans
But nobody ristens, no one understands
Seems that no one takes me serirousry

And so I'm ronery
A little ronery
Poor rittre me

There's nobody
I can rerate to
Feer rike a bird in a cage
It's kinda sihry
But not rearry
Because it's fihring my body with rage

I work rearry hard to stay nice and fit
But none of the women seem to give a shit
When I rure the world maybe they'rr notice me
But untir then I'rr just be ronery
Rittre ronery, poor rittre me
I'm so ronery
I'm so ronery

I'm going to change my sig too for this special day, stay tuned.

But hey, I think it was really clever of them to do this on the 4th of July.

And I thought he said something in that song about being clever. Hmmm.

Funny you should say that, I switched channels to see what Fox would have to say about it. They are not only saying today is of great significance, but it is Clintons fault Had to laugh at that one.

HAS to be Clinton. Who else would've pissed off the world so much in the past 7 years?

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"the height of arrogance is the height of control of those who create God in their own image"

Of course it is! Not only did he talk with North Korea (which Bush won't do), but he actually manufactured, bought, and singlehandedly transported missiles right to North Korea's door all while getting head.

wait hold on.. i dont know alot about north korea, but from what i understand, the north korean people hate kim jong il and are trying to flee into south korea.

so, if he's old, semi-isolated, and his own people are trying to get rid of him, wouldn't he be WAY easier to overthrow than saddam? not that i condone murder or death, but shouldn't we just get a sniper to kill him off and just fucking end it? who needs an extra crazed super-rich guy with connections and an agenda to blow up a bunch of stuff?

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Silly, he wasn't trying to blow up stuff, just launching some Happy 4th of July missiles for America!!

i bet they're the prettiest celebratory missiles EVER.

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They were to test the distance and range of 'how far they would go.' I think I remember hearing our 'defense team' estimated that they could probably travel to atleast Alaska. I didn't read jmr's link, maybe it's all there.

This whole thing stinks, and at the risk of sounding like a "conspiracy theorist" I'm thinking that the weapons industry has to be just wetting itself right about now.

Kim Jung Il cracks me up

Well, the missles seemed to fail miserably and did nothing but just litter the sea... and THAT burns my ass just the same.

Updated: 09:59 PM EDT

North Korea Test-Launches Multiple Missiles
By ERIC TALMADGE, AP

TOKYO (July 4) - North Korea on Wednesday test-launched six missiles including a long-range Taepodong-2 believed capable of reaching the United States, in a striking display of bravado that defied stern warnings from Washington and Tokyo, officials said.

The missiles apparently fell harmlessly into the Sea of Japan, and U.S. officials said the long-range one failed shortly after take-off. But the audacious military exercise drew immediate, international condemnation. The White House called it a "provocation" while Japan urged U.N. Security Council action and warned of economic sanctions against the impoverished, communist country.

South Korea meanwhile said the test launches would further deepen its neighbors international isolation.

Reports cited differing counts for the number of missiles fired, but South Korean and Japanese officials said six appeared to have been fired. One of them was believed to be a long-range Taepodong-2, but it failed after 35 seconds, U.S. officials said. The shorter-range missiles landed in the Sea of Japan.

The test launches came as the United States celebrated its Independance Day holiday and launched the space shuttle Discovery from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

In Tokyo, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso called for the U.N. Security Council to be convened over the issue, while warning there is "very high possibility" it would level economic sanctions against North Korea.

Japan also is preparing to launch a protest with North Korea through channels in the Chinese capital, Aso added.

In Seoul, Suh Choo-suk, senior secretary to the South Korean president on national security, called the launch a "provocative act" that will deepen the communist regime's isolation. But he said Seoul was still figuring out how to react to the tests.

Suh also urged North Korea to return to the six-party talks on its nuclear disarmament. The talks have been stalled since last year over Pyongyang's insistence that Washington drop financial sanctions against it.

"We are urgently consulting with members of the Security Council," said John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Thomas Schieffer, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, called the launches "a provocative act," and the White House said Pyongyang had further alienated itself from the world community.

Two U.S. State Department officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the long-range missile was the Taepodong-2, North Korea's most advanced missile with a range of up to 9,320 miles. Experts believe it could reach the United States with a light payload.

The launch came after weeks of speculation that the North was preparing to test the Taepodong-2 from a site on its northeast coast. The preparations had generated stern warnings from the United States and Japan, which had threatened possible economic sanctions in response.

The missiles all landed hundreds of kilometers (miles) away from Japan and there were no reports the missiles caused damage within Japanese territory, said Japanese spokesman Abe.

He said the first missile was launched at about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, or about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday EDT.

If the timing is correct, the North Korean missiles were launched within minutes of Tuesday's liftoff of Discovery, which blasted into orbit from Cape Canaveral in the first U.S. space shuttle launch in a year.

Abe said the third launch was of a long-range missile, but he could not confirm if it was a Taepodong-2 or the older Taepodong-1.

Han Song Ryol, deputy chief of North Korea's mission to the U.N. in New York, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview: "We diplomats do not know what the military is doing."

North Korea's missile program is based on Scud technology provided by the former Soviet Union or Egypt, according to American and South Korean officials. North Korea started its Nodong-1 missile project in the late 1980s and test-fired the missile for the first time in 1993.

North Korea had observed a moratorium on long-range missile launches since 1999. It shocked the world in 1998 by firing a Taepodong missile over Japan and into the Pacific Ocean.

On Monday, Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns warned North Korea against firing the missile and urged the communist country to return to six-nation talks on its nuclear program.

The six-party talks, suspended by North Korea, involved negotiations by the United States, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia with Pyongyang over the country's nuclear program.

The United States and its allies South Korea and Japan have taken quick steps over the past week to strengthen their missile defenses. Washington and Tokyo are working on a joint missile-defense shield, and South Korea is considering the purchase of American SM-2 defensive missiles for its destroyers.

The U.S. and North Korea have been in a standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program since 2002. The