Sledgstone

That was a good chapter. Poor Lluvia. And Kana looks ready to kick some ass!

Anyone get wasted off their ass?

Don Flamingo is interesting because nothing much has been revealed about him aside from the fact he has a DF that lets him remotely control people's bodies (but not their minds), and he is a "Royal Shikibukai". Which means he must be one of the tenryobuto (sp?). Which means he has double privledges with the WG. I think there must be more to his devil's fruit aside from just physical body control. Like maybe he has telekinetic powers.

Wow. If it comes to being shelved, WB will be out some serious money from production costs. If it does get shelved, I bet someone will leak the movie online somehow just out of spite.

Mwahaha. Precious loves attacking the milk jug in the snow.

Thanks guys.

The Illuminati control the media. ^_~ The education system in the US is made to quickly teach us something, get our opinion on it and then quickly forget it: http://www.dailytrojan.com/news/1.212897 Seeing as the majority of americans are conditioned for media control since early childhood, media control is quite powerful in our country. The show "are you smarter than a fifth grader" is a good example when you read the link I just posted. On an international level, the 4th and 5th grade in the US is the peak of our public education system. I think the only way we'll be able to change the media is to stop watching it. But that will only work on a large scale unfortunately.

All the snow is melted now because the temperatures went up into the 50s! But heres the pics of that 8-14 inches we had a little while ago: http://forums.ancientclan.com/album.php?albumid=34

Check it out, nice and functional: Now I can grill at night with no problems.

I don't think anyone has mentioned the worst part of the sharingan yet. Once you get it fully powered up, the more you use it the faster you go blind and loose all your eye power.

Thanks everyone! I had an enjoyable birthday, I got the Iron Man dvd, a birthday card with cash, a custom made One Piece shirt from my woman, a bottle of wine, a shirt and a couple other misc. things.

The shikibukai were formed by the marines as a power move to keep the 4 emperors in check. Seeing as the 4 emperors are as powerful as the WG/Marines, the WG doesn't want mutual destruction, so they grabbed a group of powerful pirates together to form the shikibukai. The marines did this for a couple reasons. Of course by making a pirate a shikibukai, that gives that pirate immunity from WG prosectution. They become legal pirates and can do whatever they want. The only thing they need to do to keep the nice priviledges is to fight for the WG when they are called. Now the main point of forming the shikibukai was to prevent mutual destruction. If the WG calls upon the shikibukai like they are now, they will pretty much ensure their survival and dominance. Also, by making these pirates Shikibukai it keeps them out of the crews and/or joining with the 4 emperors. The end result is that shikibukai are not another section of the government's power, they don't have to follow any orders any marine gives them and aside from being called into a fight by an admiral or the main marine commander. Because of this they are really an independant power that is in alliance with the WG. Of course the shikibukai are quite powerful and the WG still realizes that they are pirates. And you can't trust pirates. If anything, they were stupid to organize a group of mad powerful pirates together. Because if the shikibukai actually did their own alliance with each other, they could take out the WG/marines and throw the entire power balance into chaos. But, the WG picked pirates that are all mad powerful, but also with mostly conflicting interests. They probably wouldn't turn on the WG at this point because if they can take out an emperor, the shikibukai will most likely get to claim some of the newly unoccupied territory in the new world.