See? It’s a sign that we’re all coming together.
And I feel pretty confident that Santorum going to try. He’ll sure be the darling (for a while) of the radical religious right. I think he’ll get slapped in the primaries but he’ll get some play.
Everyone should be Republican
You are a Republican. You have always been a Republican. You will always be a Republican.
What?
Stranger
… and … ?
Democrats pretending to be Democrats haven’t done too well these past few elections, so of course we are going to see Democrats pretending to be Republicans as '06 and '08 approach.
Now what fun would that be?
This is just ludicrous. Anyone with an ounce of sense knows that you kill drug dealers to get easy money in GTA, not hookers - hookers hardly have enough cash to be worth waiting for, plus your reputation goes up if you off a dealer. Only idiots would go around paying hookers then robbing them back; you might as well mug little old ladies. Although that is funny.
Many sink down but few return to the sunlit lands.
Stranger
Could also be a Nineteen Eighty-Four reference, too, I suppose, but I think the above is more apropos.
I for one cannot wait to see Santorum signs popping up in lawns, Santorum bumper stickers appearing on cars… There’ll be Santorum everywhere!
Attacking sexy and violent entertainment is a stupid activity, but more importantly, it’s a stupid bipartisan activity. The wives of Al Gore, Strom Thurmond and James Baker were all on the PMRC.
Games like the GTA series should be protected under the First Amendment’s freedom of the press. Also, sex and violence sells pretty much anywhere, and particularly in video games. The more games sell, the more the companies make, the more the shareholders make, and the more people the companies can hire; therefore, violent video games are good for the economy.
Agreed. Governor Granholm is pushing a bill like this in Michigan. Just fishing for the family values vote.
It makes me so fuckin mad that I just want to rape and murder people. Of course, that’s because of looney tunes and other cartoon violence. :rolleyes:
Other than the idea of registering one way or the other for the General philosophies you prefer, everyone should vote for the individual, NOT the party. Straight ticket votes help no one.
Dropping a safe or a grand piano on someone can be great fun at parties 
That’s what I told them. I tells ya, some people don’t know how to have a good time.
Santorum? If he’s the best the party has to offer, we’re screwed. Where’s McCain? That’s a candidate I’d like to see.
Grin
~looks around~
[singing]
“I’m turning 'publican
I think I’m turning 'publican
I really think so…”
[/singing]
~escapes~
There’s a conspiracy buff who shows up on 700-AM Cincy who claims that Hillary’s gonna actually turn Repub for the 2008 Presidential election & since there are a lot of former Dems in the Repub Congressional leadership, they won’t be able to say a thing about it.
The Bircher conspiracy theories look more moderate every day.
If only we had some sort or rating system that denoted what age group violent games should be suitable for…
One would think she’d have learned from the go-nowheredness (I don’t care if it’s not a real word) of Tipper Gore and the PMRC.
Now, I may have been a youngin’ of 16ish at the time, but since it was the music I loved being attacked at the time, I made myself a politically aware teen. And as liberal as I am and was, I’ll be the first to say it fucking HORRIFIED me when I saw Tipper Whore as the wife of the Vice President. All I’d remembered about her was the misinformation and bullshit of the PMRC.
Hell, I read the PMRC/Tipper Gore’s book when it came out (what, 86, 87ish?) and all I can remember is laughing at how completely wrong it was and how much none of them even seemed to want to understand it, just persecute it.
I watched Dee Snyder and the rest testifying before Congress, in fact. Actually, it was the first time Dee Snyder ever really impressed the hell out of me, because his music as part of Twisted Sister sure didn’t, as amusing as it was.
Anyone who was a youth at the time and listened to that type of music, (and/or read the PMRC’s book) knew how laughable the entire premise was.
If people my age wanted to kill themselves at the time, it sure as fuck wasn’t cause “Ozzy or Judas Priest told us to”, it was because we were depressed and no one gave a damn, including our parents and teachers.
I had alot of suicide of my peers going on around me at the time, and music didn’t have a damn thing to do with it. To be quite honest, music was a big part of what kept me from killing myself at that age.
All I wanted was someone to understand what I was going through, and Metallica’s Fade To Black proved to me someone did…and that song actually was about suicide. I used to sit in my room alone, tears streaming down my face, listening to it over and over again, telling myself that I wasn’t alone, someone at some point had felt the same way I did, and that was enough to keep me alive, to keep me going one more day. Fake it till you make it, as the saying goes.
Ozzy Osbourne’s Suicide Solution wasn’t about promoting killing yourself whatever the PMRC wanted to assert, it was in fact, completely the opposite message…and anyone who thought Judas Priest was telling them to kill themselves and did so was just a victim of Darwin’s Law, in my small, young, uninformed opinion of the late 80’s, and frankly, my opinion as far as that’s concerned hasn’t changed much since.
People want to blame something easy for society’s ills. People want an easy fix. “OMG, if we ban the games, our kids won’t want to kill themselves or others!”
Bullshit. It wasn’t true then, it sure as fuck ain’t true now, no matter what anyone in politics or anywhere else would like to think.
Address the true problems in society, don’t blame it on bullshit video games (much as they tried to do to music in the late 80’s) and you might get somewhere.
Pursue the “omg, games are teh devil” route and it might get you some Religous Right and Ignorant Don’t-Want-To-Deal-With-Reality parents’ votes, but the rest of us see right through you.
Ban the games and you still ain’t gonna solve the fucking problem. All you’ll do is give people one less outlet in which to express themselves.
(On a personal note, as much as a computer gamer geek chick as I am, I can’t stand games like GTA3. But I sure as hell don’t think they’re causing society’s ills. If anything, they’re just a product of it. And I’m not really convinced even that’s true. I personally think they’re just giving people what they want. Much like the evening news, if it bleeds, it leads. If no one bought the games, there wouldn’t be a third version of it.)
Ewwwww!