Those who fear and loathe the US "hyperpower" meddling in the affairs of the middle east and elsewhere should consider a radical, alternative approach: Clean up their own messes.

The US, being a democracy, is representative of the will of its people. Americans don't want to be in the middle east. But we feel we have no other choice -- people from that part of the world keep doing everything that can to murder as many of us as possible. And their *stated* reasons (as opposed to imagined reasons invented by anti-american left wingers) are nonsensical and ridiculous.

So the radical plan would involve this: The people of the middle east getting rid of the terrorists within their borders themselves. You don't have American citizens individually running aroung the world commiting terrorist acts. You don't think some of the victims of 9/11 would feel a little justified giong over to say Saudi Arabia and taking out his or her revenge?  We don't do that because we actively discourage that kind of behavior.

Perhaps the people of the middle east, instead of blaming the west in general or the United States specifically should instead look inward and clean up their own mess. Get rid of their despotic rulers. Stop tolerating the death cults around them. Stop applauding terrorist acts. Feel some outrage when someone cuts the head off an innocent civilian in the name of their religion. And just in general, clean up their act.

Because if they don't, sooner or later, someone else will.

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The beta 4 series will be the last set of betas prior to release.  Users who want to pre-order and beta test the stand-alone game (as opposed to Drengin.net) will only be able to do so for a short amount of time. After we go into release candidates you will have to wait until the game ships to get it.

Stardock is about to sign a publishing deal with a major retail publisher which will affect the release date.  We expect to go gold near the end of this month but general availability will likely be mid July or early August due to retail manufacturing/marketing/distribution set up.

So which visual style keeps to a specific theme the best? Let us know your thoughts! Judging on that begins TOMORROW!

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The Geek test has been updated.

Sadly, my score is..well bad.

62.13018% - Extreme Geek

Just for the record - stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons were never the principle reason for the coalition to remove Saddam from power.

But the lack of these stockpiles is something those who have opposed the war have, in my view, cynically jumped onto to argue that the war was unjustified (as if those who were in favor of removing Saddam were losing sleep over mustard gas).

Anyway, they are apparently starting to find some of this stuff. For whatever it's worth.

One website I regulraly visit that would be of interest to people who are into customizing their machines is Teknidermy. It's a journal that covers the day to day news of skinning in all its forms. Check it out.

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