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Broadcast flag suddenly reappears in telecom bill

Senate reject calls for withdrawal from Iraq


The average american wouldn't know how to question authority if it was asking a knock knock joke.

As I have the chance to watch CNN for about 3 hours a day this last 2 weeks between the national guard being sent to the mexican border and the 'occupation' of Iraq gets worse and worse everyday; I've been reminded of something.

There's a reason we separate military and the police: one fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

This is not going to get better

I always knew I'd become a hitman...

and its not just because I liked the Boondock Saints!

This is Jack Thompson, and he needs to be stopped.

“Nobody shoots anybody in the face unless you’re a hit man or a video gamer,” Thompson said.

I am cabable of shooting people in the face apparently. I am begining to believe he says these things so someone does kill him, so he can be some sort of junior jesus figure.

You know... I started writing this with the intent on ranting; but I dont care anymore. Jack, I hope you get arrested for having child porn. I'm not paying attention to you anymore.

I stole this directly from....

here. I don't think its a secret that I find fox to be a deplorable company in general but also I think this will help hammer home another point I've been trying to get across... PARENT YOU DAMN KIDS

The penny arcade comic on the issue.
The little gamers comic on the same issue long ago

Little Jeffy Harris just thought the bright pictures of naked ladies his new friend brought him were funny. He would spent long recesses giggling quietly and conversing in hushed tones to his pal, as they both laughed innocently at the people with no clothes.

But Jeffy's new friend was not another boy. No, not at all. This friend was special. He was only about the size of a brick, with speakers instead of a mouth and a glossy screen where his eyes should be: Jeffy's best friend was the Playstation Pornable.

What mom thought was just a game is actually a very sophisticated piece of electronics that a clever kid can use to capture pornographic images out of thin air. In the school's library, Jeff was eager to show his friends his new Sony Play Station Portable, or PSP. On a dare, Jeff showed his pals how the PSP could magically display images of naked women.

I despise you utterly, Fox News. More after the jump.

Who wants to bet that "Jeff Harris" is a made-up name? But it occurs to me to wonder whether this continuing ignorance on the part of mainstream media (and mainstream parents) is beneficial to the games community as a whole, or detrimental. It's irritating that these people want to make things hard for us (see Jack Thompson, etc.), but gratifying that they don't know how.

Usually we follow a one-quote-per-post format, but this was just gold, and I had to include it:

David Walsh/National Institute on Media and the Family: "I talk to parents everyday who are discovering that some of their teenagers are not just curious about messing around with porn, but are deeply into pornography."

Adolescent humans deeply interested in portrayals of sexual acts?! Inconceivable! Eliza Gauger

Portable Porn [FOX News]

Two hours of traffic gives you time to think...

How often is it that you see the phrase "legendary thespian" with the name Steven Segal?

I wonder what the hell the person in the Ford Focus ahead of me is doing when the break lights stay on from Austin to where I passed her at Canal St. Thats over a mile of highway driving with both feet on a pedal.

And I can't help but wonder if maybe I should just stop voting democrat. Now lets not get ahead of me here, hear me out. We all know business and politics are in bed with each other, and they always have. The problem is, we used to not know much about it, we didn't see it, it was like staying in a hotel, you know someone is having sex somewhere in there, but you dont know where. Now you open your room and there they are, politicians and business, right there, on your bed, and you just have to sit there and try to ignore it. And what's with this Bush and Clinton joint vacationing, speaking events crap? I give up, the democrats just seem to roll over. Not to mention, who's the biggest name in the democrat party? Well arguably you could say Barrack Obama, who I will vote for, but the other biggest name: Hillary Clinton. And she must be pushed out of office. Her entire platform is based on the same bullshit the republicans are: scare you with family values. Except she's going after video games. She wants video games to be government regulated. Why? Because spoiled, upper-middle class white boys cannot be held responsible for their actions, they play Grand Theft Auto and Doom and then go shoot people at their school. Obviously the games are what drove them to madness. There is no reason for government regulated video game systems; does the federal government regulate the movie industry? Hell no they don't. Not to mention the amount of sexual innuendo and down right raunchy content that passes for a PG-13 movie would cause a video game with the same content to be slapped with an "adults only" rating, effectively tanking the product before it ever hit the shelves. I don't want the federal, state, or district governments deciding the moral regulation of anything I do. Hell I don't even like the idea of a 21 drinking age, why would I support anyone who thinks my 'media consumption' is immoral or takes away my choice of when my kid can play a video game where someone's head explodes. I'm seriously going to start looking for independent/green candidates to vote for because this is just stupid, and if I can't find one, I'll probably stop voting rather than using my vote to support someone who I disagree with under the argument "at least its not a republican."