January 31, 2008
The group that did the study is called the Opinion Research Business, and I'd love to find out who actually funded this study. Lefties are already starting to flog this as their latest talking point. This HuffPo tool is declaring that the US has created a Holocaust under the Bushitler, and that we're denying it.
Ah, here we go, the Mudville Gazette guys are already on it, the Independent Institute for Administration and Civil Society Studies, which worked with the ORB in creating this propaganda was involved in the first Lancet study. I'd still love to know where the money came from to fund this study.
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January 30, 2008
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January 29, 2008
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The concept and storyline of the game is terrible, and so was the execution, crappy gameplay with really lots of really stupid gimmicky fatalities, which were going to be its main hook. Here's a video of some of the ridiculous fatalities, but I suggest clicking the link to get a real feel for how truly awesomely awful this game is.
Here are two insider perspectives. The game was developed by pinball developer Data East Pinball (later bought out by SEGA). Data East was kind of a mediocre developer of pinball games, and didn't have the kind of budgets or talent that the other pinball developers had. They tended to rush their products, the only thing that really kept them in the game was that they were good at picking up licenses for movie and other tie-ins.
The second story from the developer is something else, the development team members about killed themselves trying to crank out this steaming pile within eight months, they were chasing a $25,000 bonus.
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January 28, 2008
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I've long believed, and continue to believe, that Rudy's success as a candidate relied on fear of the Hildebeest. As long as the Hildebeest looked inevitable, Rudy was inevitable too. When the Hildebeest's campaign started to stumble, it broke her aura of inevitability, and it broke Rudy's too, and that's why he's tanked so badly. Hillary's weakness as a candidate and the challenge from Obama pretty much ruined it for Rudy, not to mention his campaign pretty much assumed the primary would be a breeze.
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LEGOs are no longer my top traffic draw, they've been replaced by Budweiser's Chelada, but they did give me a pretty big boost, and LEGO stories were pretty much obligatory.
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I'm assuming that a will would override that, but the article doesn't say. There have been other lawsuits arguing similar cases which have been successful, about $6 million has been given to families in settlements already, and I'm guessing we could see this pop up in other states as well, so this could be a huge thing by the time all the suits are filed.
Obviously, this is an emotional topic, and the National Association of Medical Examiners decides to approach the situation delicately...
"Human beings relate to the personhood and soul of other living human beings, but these qualities are extinguished at death," said the medical examiners' brief. "The real family interest is in the 'soul' of the deceased, if it continues in an afterlife, or in the memory of the 'soul', rather than to the dead carcass."
...masters of PR, I tell you.
The lawyer involved in the suit is known for pursuing these types of cases, the first big case he was involved in was in 1991, when he successfully sued a coroner who had harvested corneas from a widow's husband.
He'll have a tough case this time, as the Ohio Assembly passed a law in reaction to past lawsuits, which declared all parts taken during an autopsy were to be considered medical waste and disposed.
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January 25, 2008
"Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."
should be applied to John McCain, and others have likely used it in his defense. Sorry, but I'm gonna go ahead and counter with A Bullshit Card on anyone using the 11th Commandment Card for John McCain.
John McCain has not only reveled in speaking ill of other Republicans, he's reveled in actually undermining basic Republican platform principles time and time again, there's violating the Eleventh Commandment, and then there's what McCain does. And before someone argues that what he does is compromise, it is not compromise, we held a majority during most of McCain's little "principled stands", what McCain has been doing is,
McCain may just now finally be reaping what he's spent a decade sowing. I'll focus on one issue for this post, because McCain's apologists are bugging the hell out of me when it comes to defending him on this issue.
McCain is the guy who stopped us from making the Bush tax cuts permanent(one of things that tin-eared Texas 'tard got right), which now we're seeing the Democrats sniveling "We're not raising taxes, the law will just sunset", thanks McCain, you fucking wanker, you gave them that out. McCain must carry his big brass ones in a fucking basket to actually campaign on wanting to make the Bush tax cuts permanent.
And before I hear any bullshit about fiscal discipline, he dipped into the same class warfare bowl that the Democrats did, don't sit there and tell me otherwise. If he had kept his argument solely based on fiscal discipline, I would have respected his decision. He didn't. Far as I can tell, his choice to engage in class warfare can only mean one or more of the following:
He told the truth then and is as much a class warfare demagogue as the Democrats, or as liberal in his policy when it comes to taxation.
He was being a spiteful dick and undermining Bush for beating him in the 2000 election, which then brings whether he should be in the position he's in to begin with as a Senator into question, let alone president of he lets spite rule him that much.
He actually did believe that it was fiscally irresponsible, but holds the electorate in such low esteem that he felt he had to resort to simple demagoguery and lie, which makes him an elitist dick.
He loves to slob Beltway and MSM elite knob, and this was the perfect way for him to get their approval.
Or lastly, he just loves screwing the conservative movement and undermining it.
I may have to do a few more posts indicting McCain for his violations of the eleventh commandment. Truth be told, all the candidates have violated the Eleventh Commandment to some degree, but McCain is by far the most egregious violator of that law.
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I wish this would have come out earlier in the week, but come Monday, this should be all over talk radio, and if we're lucky, because Soros' activist groups are involved, that loudmouth O'Reilly'll be all over it too.
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China may pass us in technological achievement if we don't get it together, let's not forget, while China is far off from its Maoist style brutality, its still under the control of a dangerous and dictatorial Communist regime that does oppress and brutalize its own people, and may well have a desire to oppress other people in Asia if the regime gets ambitious or aggro.
Most important, this shows a need to severely rebuild our decrepit education system, and when I call it decrepit, I'm not talking about the facilities, I'm talking about the philosophies and teaching methods currently in use, clearly they need an overhaul and major rethinking. I also think this also shows we need to work at drawing in more people with tech backgrounds from the rest of the world, and hell, maybe even a few Chinese people who want to get away from that regime. We've done that for a long time, we were able to pick up a lot of the big brains of western Europe after WWII, we may have to ramp that up, and why I cringe when I hear people talking moratorium on legal immigration.
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Guilt? Not so much, he's now suing the bicyclist's family for about $20,000 damage done to his Audi, plus another $8000 for the cost of rental cars while he waited for his Audi to be repaired.
*all $ amounts approximate exchanges from Pound to US Dollar.
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January 24, 2008
If any one of my six readers is wondering why I haven't commented on the Fred dealie, I'm just not sure where I am on it, my state is one of the last to vote in the primaries, so odds are very likely that the nominee will have been chosen.
Part of me is inclined to cheer for the Stormin' Mormon for just the primary at least, for no other reason than to screw over that asshole McCain as one last, emphatic fuck you for all the times he's screwed over the conservative movement during his time in office.
McCain always says he was a foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution...Reagan was before my time so I don't worship him like that retard Hannity, but I get the feeling if the Gipper were here today to see what McCain was doing and has done, he would have thrown his ass in the brig. Most of McCain's destruction was done when the GOP was in the majority, Reagan had to battle with a Democrat controlled Congress, he gets a pass for most of his compromises and sins, McCain gets no, and deserves no forgiveness.
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January 23, 2008
California backs off its creepy Nanny State/Big Brother plan to install monitors on thermostats in homes which would allow energy firms to regulate temperature when the people caught wind of the shenanigans.
Russia continues to engage in belligerent Soviet-era military exercises in skies and water around western Europe...
Fortunately for the Russians, this appears to be their opposition...
See-Dub shows the potential for the Reservoir Dogs scenario I've been fearing.
Hurricane Pinto touches down at mesa's.
Slubbo laments that the end times may be near for Huckabee's campaign.
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