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While there are many damsels in distress there are few damsels like Alphard. However any lass can become an ojou-sama from a distinguished family that has been continued for a thousand years, skilled in both literary and military arts,  with wit and beauty, the intensity of summer, the grace of autumn, the pride of winter, and the gentleness of spring…all it takes is effort. (Thanks to Kabitzin for letting me use his photoshops)

So since Hinano raged once again about lasses who could not save themselves I thought it was time to write the manual to help young otome everywhere learn how to look out for themselves. Certainly these days males have increasingly taken the hippie path and cower in fear at the mere thought of being drafted, some go as far as draft dodging before a draft begins, so as the not all males are men, as men do no cower and have a sense of duty to some one or something other than their own personal safety. I suppose with this hippie path that male pissants increasingly take, that it is time to make up for the shortfall and make comrades out of those women who have no desire to be coddled or held back by male puss cakes. While there is much talk of love being the highest relationship between human beings nothing could be further from the truth as comrades are in every way superior to boyfriends or girlfriends (who are by all accounts prone to treachery). The bond between two comrades can only be forged in the fires of battle, sealed through mutual bloodshed, and is guarded by the souls of the dead. Perish the fool who would dare betray such a bond!

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Ah memories…

Well about two months ago back in April I should have marked my 2nd blog anniversary but things have not really been normal to say the least. Well I suppose that this post will at least mark the start of my terrible twos in which case quality will plummet as will output (Mwahahahaha). I started the year off by getting my apartment broken into and making E-5. Now that my academic career is at an end it basically fell upon me to make good on my newfound responsibilities at work, which meant having a whacked out schedule of extended hyperactivity every now in then. In July it will be a brutal month as I get to fly to Virginia twice in the same month to the same place, knowing what I know now it basically means four or more red eye flights unless the paper work goes over well. Still I do get to make the traditional after graduation road trip, and hopefully that will be a bit more interesting than the usual. While summer looks to be a hit or a miss at least there is the promise of the Macross Movie (Which will be Gorgeous Delicious DECULCHA!). So here goes the mandatory late as hell rant I am supposed to do at the end of every blog year, which is conversely an opportunity to muse aimlessly in a futile effort to put together a post.
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Gundam 00 is modern in the past they would have thought searching for the Holy Grail, would have been a great idea…if only they’d taken God up on it.

Since it seems that IKnight’s post seems to have sparked a spate of discussion on Gundam 00 I might as well add more fuel to it. Omo wrote a post about how Gundam 00’s world is similar to our own world, in a sense he is somewhat right and some what off. Omo’s theory that it is a sort of Japanese view on the post 9/11 world it inevitably means that it offers a critique of American foreign policy and how the dynamics of politics have shifted. To be sure much of it might seem new, but Al Qaida did not show up over night and preemptive strike has been used before. Omo suggests that the War on Terror and the War against Communism are two very different things, but I don’t entirely agree with that for a number of reasons.  Moreover I find omo’s idea that we are crediting an invisible enemy that is neither here nor there, something that can’t be grappled and zapped to be misleading and to be frank false. To be fair omo and I probably sit on opposite sides of the fence on the issue. I stand to lose far more than omo does and that alone will certainly color my perception of reality as it will inevitably be through a lens of conflict. I disagree with the idea that you need to be an “innocent” civilian to understand peace, I may know more about killing than I do about living vis a vis civilians like omo, but that doesn’t mean that one can’t fully appreciate the concept of peace.

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Long has Patrick dreamed of this day…

Fellow Earth Federation citizens! I appeal to you all. Celestial Being is exhausted! It is low on troops! Low on ships, weapons, and even ammunition! Why then should we surrender? Dear fellow citizens, our true enemy is no longer Celestial Being but our own weak leaders. Hiding behind some notion of “absolute democracy”, they are reduced to absolute indecision. Why should we the survivors of this horrible war, entrust them with the power to make decisions for us!?

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Now that Prince Ali is in Future Century otherwise known as Valhalla, he decided to enter the Gundam Fight…

In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted, the design on my part to free the slaves… The word of God teaches me that all things whatsoever I would that men should do to me, I should do even so to them. It teaches me, further, to “remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them.”… I believe that to have interfered as I have done as I have always freely admitted I have done in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of Azadistani “justice,” and mingle my blood further with the blood of my comrades and with the blood of millions in that slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments by the Azadistani occupier, I submit; so let it be done! Let me say, also, a word in regard to the statements made by some of those connected with me. I hear it has been stated by some of them that I have induced them to join me. But the contrary is true… There is not one of them but joined me of his own accord, and the greater part of them at their own expense… Now I have done. I, Prince Ali, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty world can never be purged away but with blood. You may dispose of me very easily. I am nearly disposed of now. But this question is still to be settled, this slavery question, I mean; the end of that is not yet. – Prince Ali to the Trial System, in the aftermath of the GN Burst

Don’t make a mess of it – shoot straight, you retard. – Last words of Prince Ali

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At least Patrick accomplished something before getting dropped. By the way Katie gets the pot since you were both wrong.

I am closing my 14 years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at Sandhurst, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that “old soldiers never die; they just fade away.” And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as Katie gave him the light to see that duty. – Patrick Colasour

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Bob would like some Pocky too…

The Renge attempt on my life has left me scarred and deformed. But my resolve has never been stronger. The remaining Jihad-kuns will be hunted down and defeated! To ensure the security and continuing stability, the Federation will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire! For a safe and secure society! We must move quickly. Jihad-kun is relentless. If he is not all destroyed, it will be civil war without end. First, I want you to go to Ptolemy. We will catch them off balance. Do what must be done Lord Louise do not hesitate and show no mercy. After you have killed Saji on the Ptolemy, then head to Mustafar and wipe out Viceroy Sumeragi and all of the CB and Kataron leaders only then you will be strong in the Dark Side to save mama and papa. Once more the Sith will rule the galaxy… and we shall have peace. – Emperor Ribbons

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