The Armory

(EDIT #2: Yup, Samit from Destructoid just hit me back with an email stating their pricing was incorrect. So the MAYHEM PACK IS 1080 points, NOT 440. No big deal - between this and the Scene It DLC (no special THIS week that I would want - *SADFACE*), that is 1080+560 = 1640 Points. Between a points card and my leftover, I have 1670. SOLD! And the offer to rub Helen's feet is still valid.)

 

(EDIT: I NEED TO LEARN TO READ BETTER. Shacknews is reporting that this pack will be 1080 points, NOT 440 like Destructoid has listed. I am awaiting confirmation of the pack's pricing, and will add another EDIT when I know for sure. If this is the case, then TRASH what I said about how I was going to use my points card. I might just be getting this pack and the DLC for Scene It: Box Office Smash...) 

 

 

HA HAH. HA HAH. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! ABOUT. F**KING. TIME.

 

Remember when I mentioned in a past blog about never being able to play bands like Cannibal Corpse in the music games that I own? PROBLEM SOLVED.

 

I have 70 points on my balance right now. Today I am supposed to HOPEFULLY be able to buy Fuel PC and Street Fighter IV PC at retail. When I do, I am also getting a points card. So after AUTOMATICALLY BUYING THIS TRACK PACK NEXT WEEK, I will still have 1230 points. If you want the rest of them Harmonix, you could make that Iron Maiden track pack a "Deal Of The Week" and sell it for 1200 points instead of the normal 1600. Just saying, you know...

 

Or I could just buy an arcade game or two. Yeah, LIKE THAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN ANYTIME SOON...

 

Now that Cannibal Corpse and Behemoth have their feet in the door, I HUMBLY ASK FOR SOME OBITUARY, DEICIDE (anything with Ralph on guitar), VADER, DIVINE HERESY, and MORE SLAYER! How about some of Slayer's newer songs like "Psycopathy Red" or "Supremist"? Maybe some classics from Obituary like "Dying", "Threatening Skies", or "Violent Dreams" (that two minute GEM off their new album, Darkest Day)? I know Deicide is a tricky one, but "Homage for Satan" is one of the songs that put THE GUITAR SOLO back into metal. VADER is a no brainer - but you could start with "Lead Us!" or "Dark Transmission" or the re-recorded "Reborn in Flames" off of last year's EPIC album XXV. As for Divine Heresy, I just want to see GPM shoot me dirty looks while trying to play Tim Yeung's drums. (*SMILE*)

 

So as I read this article:

 

 

I chuckle, because I AM STILL WAITING FOR ACTIVISION TO SERVE ME BETTER AND PUT OUT SOME MORE CONTENT FOR GUITAR HERO METALLICA. I mean, if you are putting out a "Hero" game every month (and even on more than one system too!), you SHOULD OUTSELL a game that does quarterly retail track packs. But you notice, no one ever puts up stats for DLC songs. I am sure it is in that area that Rock Band still whips Guitar Hero's ass.

 

As for the holiday weekend, I am off tomorrow as well, so THREE DAY GAME FEST FOR ME! I hopefully will be spending much of that time on PC titles (the new ones listed above and more GTA IV PC and 007 PC), but if not, I have been breaking in my 360 copy of Street Fighter IV as practice for the PC version. And Gears Of War 2's Horde mode and NHL 2k9 are still in the playlist too.

 

Everyone have a safe and happy Fourth Of July, and remember to be thankful for the freedoms we get to enjoy. It could be worse - you could live in Iran.

 

I have been playing GTA IV for PC lately, and let me say that it has been a unique experience so far - and when I mean unique, I mean it. This game is the FIRST GTA title I have seriously tried to play and get into. Open world games for the most part BORE me because no matter how "open" the world is, things tend to boil down to a few specific mini game types that repeat themselves quicker than they should (ASSASSIN'S CREED for instance, was HATED by a few people because they felt all the side missions had this problem - my beef with AC is that I feel that the repetition is in the combat...). Let me say right now that if this title was not a Games For Windows Live title, I would not have touched it. I briefly played the 360 version (and wrote a blog about it) back when the game first came out for consoles, but it never grabbed me the way this game grabs other folks. But since GFWL says "HI!", I was obligated to at least give this GTA some milage.

 

In the beginning, this game was pretty fucked. Lousy code, horrible Multiplayer, and you needed a near Crysis capable rig to even get this thing running at low settings. My first month with this game was an exercise in fustration, from having the game run like shit on my old PC to actually trying to play it online (which I could never do completely) to getting online with a "game with developers" day that never took place because the Rockstar guys never showed up! The first month with this title was rough. But the patches came, I built a new gaming PC, and I eventually uninstalled the game off the old PC and reinstalled it on the new PC. At that point, things improved. I was able to actually stay online for games, the game ran better, and I could play it on medium settings pretty well. I am sure a quad-core CPU would make things even better, but for now my dual-core PC is more than capable of running this game.

 

So I started playing this game FOR REAL, and I was thrust into the character of Niko Belic, fresh off the boat and a complete virgin to all things Liberty City. I have a cousin it seems, Roman is his name - he runs a taxi service and likes to gamble. I met my girl, Michelle, early on in the game, and eventually, I had to go earn some money.

 

The game itself is wonderful and its world is busy, active, AND COMPLETELY FUCKING DUMB (more on this in a minute). Cars zoom by, people walk the streets, and no matter what you do, everyone has something to say to you about it. As you progress in your "jobs" (ie missions), more places on the island open up, and you get the chance to meet more people, from other women to friends of your Cousin, to new business partners and job opportunities. There are ads on the radio, shows on television, shows to go see, places to drink at, and games to play at these places as well (Qub3d, Pool, Darts, and Bowling). Being a shy guy to begin with, my Niko keeps his life tight, and by doing so, all my friends like me very much, and Michelle is always happy to see me.

 

So eventually I encounter the missions part of the game - which are split in two groups - side missions, in which you do jobs on the side to earn extra money (steal cars, run drugs, perform hits on troublesome people), and story missions, cutscene driven tasks in which you begin to understand just how Liberty City works.

 

In some ways, this game could have been called Rastafarian Step and Fetchit IV, as both groups tend to make you either shoot things, run things off the road, or chase down other things. As a result, your story grows. You meet more people, you are given more tasks, more islands open up, and you start to forge an everyday rountine. Wake up, run some drugs, hang with a friend shooting pool, go see Roman, hang with Michelle, perform a task for whomever is employing you at the moment, go home, "sleep" (ie SAVE THE GAME). Lather, rinse, repeat.

 

So why does this game piss me off to no end? Well, for starters, for such an open world, there amount of "stuff" you can actually do is quite limited. You can only go into places where there is a game driven task. I could not simply stop by a building, get out, and go explore it. No, unless the game wants you in a certain spot, or has defined the building to serve a game purpose, you are running on a quasi-linear path. Second, everything in this game relates to crime. I mean that - now understand I do not expect a "save the puppy!" mission or "sit on some steps for the day" gameplay, but chasing down EVERYONE gets old quick, and it seems that the cops will show up even if all you do is sneeze on a person wrong.

 

What do I like to do in Liberty City? Driving, hanging with my friends, STEALING CARS, and trying to find something to do that does not involve gunning down the masses. Yes, I said STEALING CARS. Brucie's "car retrieval" missions were FUN AS FUCK, even if I had to do them TWICE BECAUSE THE GAME GLITHCED THE ACHIEVEMENT. That was ok, as some of the thefts were pretty funny in their situations, from having to steal a car while the driver was being arrested at the same time (which meant stealing the car, avoid being shot up, and then getting away from the cops) to walking up on a group of people and jumping on their bike while they watched. I enjoyed those missions a lot.

 

The "chase" missions on the other hand, WERE INFURIATING TO ME. It never failed, NEVER FAILED to have some dumb AI car turn at the very last nano second while I am trying to drive by it. RESULT? *CRASH SMASH WATCH MY GUY FLY OUT OF THE WINDSHIELD!*. This got old quick, as it appears that there is actual code in the game that is called "TURN_LEFT_NOW" whenever you were within a certain distance to any car. I cracked my controller on Sunday throwing it down in disgust after about the FIFTITH time this happened to me. This would not be so bad, except that when you are given a chance to replay the mission, YOU START ALL THE WAY OVER. You do not get to just restart the mission part - you have to do all the cutscenes, all the driving, ALL OF IT, all over again. THIS. IS. BULLSHIT! - ESPECIALLY when the reason why you had to restart is because some damn sedan turned right in front of you while you were going very fast chasing a fleeing drug dealer. Even Niko at one point agreed with me, as there was a "Manny" mission in which you had to CHASE A TRAIN as it rode its tracks. Niko said "THIS IS BULLSHIT" - which it was, and because it was Manny can go rot for all I care.

 

I am at 40% of the way through the game so far (at least that is what it tells me in the STATS screen) - and I am really wanting to not do any more STEP AND FETCH missions in this game. Some of my more favorite moments were when I was able to do things on the fly and still have things work out. For example, once you meet Dwayne, one of the cutscene missions is to clear out a strip club. On the way there I got the cops' attention, and they chased me all the way to the club. I entered the club like I was supposed to, and I noticed my wanted level was still there. So I walked to the back of the club and waited. The moment the cops burst in the club's guards turned on the cops. I sat in the back and picked off anyone dumb enough to show their face in the back. Of course, even after all that, I STILL HAD TO CHASE SOME MOTHERFUCKERS. But the cops had parked their cars everywhere, so when the SUV roared away, IT SMASHED RIGHT INTO THE COP CARS, and I was able to catch the vehicle ON FOOT, ONE BLOCK AWAY. I did the deed, got in the car, and got away before the cops got to me. THAT IS WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS GAME. Even though I fucked it up on the way, I was still able to use the situation around me to get the job done. That is "OPEN WORLD".

 

The achievements for this game ARE A PAIN IN THE ASS. It took me FOREVER to get the "Turkey" bowling achievement - you do not know how many "9 /" my bowling card had. HUNDREDS OF THEM before I managed to get it. A good chunk of the achievements (and their points) were multiplayer only - and in this game, I AVOID ONLINE. Why? It used to be because I could not stay in a session - now it is because every asshole online you do not know is probably running a modded version of the game. One race was modded so when you hit the gas, your car BLEW UP! Yeah, that makes me want to play online. Actually, quite the opposite. Things like this are one of the reasons I do not like online multiplayer all that much. The more popular games have assholes like this IN SPADES, and it takes the fun away quickly.

 

As for the ingame and single player ones, some are inspired, others are WTF? It is kind of annoying to play a bunch of missions and EARN FIVE GOD DAMN POINTS. Meanwhile, you can hop on MP and supposedly earn about fifty in a session if you are decent (Rockstar viral, race achievements, personal ranks). That shit is whack folks. MP has always been a side item for solid single player, not the other way around. Every game that is a hit (for the most part, I could care less about L4D folks - it SUCKS!) has a solid single player base and the MP adds to that. You can tell this because there are some good single player games with tacked on MP that adds NOTHING to the experience that single player gives you (Darkness, Dark Sector, Condemned II, many others). GTA IV suffers this problem and then throws on top of that the cheaters and the modders. FUN FUN FUN? NOT NOT NOT!

 

I have a 250 GS in the game, and that is from hustling (EVERY DAY I'M HUSTLIN, EVERY DAY I'M HUSTLIN...) my ass around the islands I have unlocked so far (one to go!) doing anything I can NOT RELATED TO CRIME. I played a lot of pool, I bowled quite often, I finally figured out the Darts, I hung with whomever I could reach on the cell phone. I fucked around quite a bit at the airport, getting my achievements for the wheelie on a motorcycle, flipping my car over 5 times from a jump, and avoiding the police with a four star wanted level. I like the fact this game makes you work for your friendships, I just wish you had a friend who say, ran a bakery, and you can go there and just hang out and maybe a eat a bagel for free to restore health. But you can not do that in this game. Even the "normal" people in your life HAVE NO LIVES WITHOUT YOU. You never run into Michelle on the street; you never work out with Brucie. But you can go steal a car for Brucie, take Michele out for drinks and then sex. BUT THAT IS IT. And for this game, there is certainly room to do more with the world than just terrorize it.

 

I keep playing, in the vain hope that somewhere along the line the crime stops, more things to do open up, and I can just exist in this "open world". But until then, more of the same. And that makes the game hard to play sometimes - especially after ANOTHER FUCKING CAR TURNED LEFT!

 

So as for the real world - that is as good as it can be right now. Money situation still sucks, and now I have to deal with a new issue - banker stupidity. One lesson I have taken from all this shit is that once I pay off certain banks, THEY CAN GO FUCK OFF. Case in point - Citibank. Citibank has been shutting down a lot of my cards as of late, and now they shutting down something I take good care of - GAS CARDS. I have a few of them, and the ones issued by Citibank are all getting shut down because of my problems with BofA. NOT CITIBANK - my payment history to them is stellar even now. But because BofA FUCKED ME, Citibank thinks I am not a viable risk anymore. Considering BofA is THE ONLY BANK I have this problem with, you would think Citibank would look at my activity with Captial One or Chase to really see how I handle my money. But no, they see BofA and it freaks them out. I AM TIRED OF BEING JUDGED BY SOME FUCKING SUIT IN NEW YORK LOOKING AT SIMPLE NUMBERS. You would hope that "credit analysts" would judge you only on what you do with the companies asking for the assessment. But Citibank takes one look at BofA, and in turn SCREWS ME MORE. To wit, THAT IS SIMPLY NOT FAIR, and if this was next year, they would NOT be able to do this. Congress left the American Public high and dry by giving the banking/credit industries NINE MONTHS to fuck us, instead of making the "Credit Protection Act" effective now. You can thank the banking lobbysts for that bullshit - it only makes it harder for the folks trying to stay afloat. I would love to write up their bonus reviews USING INFORMATION FROM OTHER JOBS. Because that is kind of what they are doing to me. Judging me from outside sources instead of how I am with their own accounts. BULLSHIT.

 

But I am not beaten - I have made it clear to every bank that fucks me that once I am done with you, I AM DONE WITH YOU. Meaning once I am clear, and you jackasses start sending me those applications again, I am going to simply write "return to sender" on them, and put them back in the mailstream. You get to fuck me ONCE, AND ONLY ONCE. I learn then - and from that point on, YOU LOSE ME AS A CUSTOMER - because I REMEMBER YOUR TREATMENT OF ME WHEN I WAS NEEDING YOUR HELP, and that memory is usually NOT A GOOD ONE.

 

But again, I am cool with this, because in the end, the banks are only hurting themselves. You saw how long it took JP Morgan to get apeshit with their bonuses once they paid back TARP - they talked about changing the bonus policy LESS THAN 48 HOURS AFTER REPAYING TARP. Boy, I would LOVE to change my card terms that quick, but the banks would lose the ability to buy blowjobs in bulk if that happened, so no, FATCAT BOILER ROOM LEECH needs to light that stoggie with a Ben Franklin, just like he used to do when Bush was in office. People who do not learn from their mistakes only repeat them, and when their market hits the dirt again later this year, the people who they fucked over in the first half of the year will not care. I DO NOT CARE RIGHT NOW BECAUSE OF THEIR ACTIONS.

 

I hit one year mark at my job, and now I hope to get a raise of some sort. This job simply STINKS at times, but the pay is good enough... for now. But I have hit a major mark in tenure, and by doing so, I have almost outlasted the prior three people at this job COMBINED. In fact, I have doubled the time of the last one. That is worth SOMETHING, RIGHT? It should be, because I have no fear in the job market. Understand, my skills are USEFUL in this day and age. I do shit that no one else WANTS to do. And that is a SKILL - one that has served me well as of late, and it has allowed me to grow in confidence and ability. Go on ahead and let me go, two things will happen - 1)The place I was at will realize I WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG (Hi, Nippon!) and furiously attempt to get me back (SORRY, BUT IF THE BITCH IS STILL THERE THE PROBLEM IS STILL THERE...) and 2)Someone else who is JUST AS NEEDY as the prior place once was will gladly step up and give me work. Because my rep is a simple one - I GET THE JOB DONE, NO MATTER WHAT THAT MAY BE. Again, this is a SKILL, and one in short supply today...

 

This week, I hopefully get to play some Street Fighter 4 on the PC (depends on how fast I can get ANY version of it in my hands), and I also get a three day weekend to do so. Yes, A PAID HOLIDAY FOR ME, that is if I work a full week next week as well. Yeah, such is my life as a contracted worker. But this weekend I get to have an extra day for games and fun (maybe more co-op fun with RemagerocdraH with Gears 2 or Resident Evil 5 or NHL 2k9). I plan on catching a fireworks show somewhere, and I look forward to sleeping in Friday morning and enjoying it greatly. Now all I need is a REAL WORLD MICHELLE to share it with.

 

 

"I Kissed a Girl": Megan has been outspoken about her bisexuality; however, she has an interesting take on what bisexuality means for her. In May 2009, she said, "I would never date a girl who was bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that ... I'd never want to sleep with a girl who had slept with a man."

WOW, and I do not mean World of Warcraft. Every man in the world should take GREAT insult at that line. I really did not like this HAG before, and after reading this quote, I REALLY DO NOT LIKE HER NOW. Nice to see the "social outcast" is no better than her supposed "oppressors" when she was growing up.

If you are Bryan Austin Green - dude, I AM SORRY. YOU ARE DIRTY - and not the good meaning of it. But then again, so am I according to this CUNTSHARK, so let me crack open a cold one for you and ask how you want your steak on the grill. So let's break down this CUNTSHARK's thought process, shall we?

My initial theorem - Miss Fox is a lesibian. Here's why - 1)She states she would never date a bisexual girl - therefore you either go straight or lesibian, but not both. But because women sleep with men, she would never sleep with a girl who would sleep with a guy. 2)She has "confessed" to having an affair with a LA stripper (*STRIPPA FUCKA!*). 3)MEN ARE DIRTY, and not the "Black Books" version of "DIRTY" either. 4)She loves that attention.

So, Miss Fox, my name is SidearmS, AND I THINK YOU ARE A WORTHLESS CUNTSHARK. Who the fuck are you to call my gender "DIRTY"? Want to know the truth? Men are doing better while women have fallen off the damn cliff. And here is how I KNOW THIS:

In my morning rides to and from work, I share a train car full of people. When you do this for an extended period of time, you start to get to know your fellow riders somewhat. And let me tell you what I have been seeing lately; I have been seeing a lot of women looking for jobs. I have even had a few ask me what I do for a living and how I got my job. Well, a lot of these women seem to be ok UNTIL YOU TALK TO THEM. Then the "issues" arise. A lot of women these days seems to have a new friend in their lives - MR. FELONY. No really, whenever I ask these folks what they can do and their experience, I seem to get this word. When did a vast number of women turn to a life of crime? Is it drugs? Prostitution? Bad Intentions? DOES IT MATTER?! It seems a lot of women these days carry that stigma with them. I can honestly say I have met more women with felonies lately than men. It used to be hearing that from a man was a normal thing to expect. Now, it no longer surprises me that women now say it. Another brick in the equality wall I guess.

So I guess we NEED to have such a bitter, man slamming CUNTSHARK so that someone will take care of these poor women. I mean, after 25, your body is pretty much shot for being a stripper if you are rough with yourself, and being a stripper or a hooker is way more dirter than being "MAN DIRTY", so I guess we need such a useless CUNTSHARK like Miss Fox to take care of and deem worth onto these pathetic scabs of society. I mean, that is how we view the men with felonies, right?

Let me be clear - Megan Fox is not worth my sperm. I mean that. She could walk in right now and I would point to her quote and say, "I am sorry, I am too dirty for you and I have a penis, so please move along." Anyone see that photo of the poor LOSER with the rose trying to give it to Megan? That is what she thinks her life should be like. People who live in the real world know better.

Now you see why most people could care less if a pit to HELL opened up and swallowed Hollywood whole. Look at the mannerisms of the "new brat pack" - all female, ALL STUPID, ALL SPOILED, ALL USELESS. CUNTSHARK APPROVED. You can lay that at the feet of Miss Jolie for that. Throw in the current group of "young male actors", and you seem to have a group of COMPLETE IDIOTS running around there. Boy, if you think Generation X was a bunch of slackers, look at this group - would you rather deal with a someone who might not be perfect and knows it, or someone who thinks they are perfect and because of that they are better than you?

Plus, you folks know my theory for homosexuality, and Miss Fox fits that stereotype to a "T". She is quite into herself, is she not? Pretty unforgiving of others, is she not?

People like that serve no real use in the world right now. While women like Iran's "Neda" are DYING IN THE STREET, stupid CUNTSHARKS like Miss Fox are taking potshots at the male gender. Now you know why Miss Fox DOES NOTHING FOR ME. You can be the best looking thing out there, but the second you open your mouth, people get the REAL PICTURE.

AVOID the new Transformers movie. Not only because she is in it (and since she thinks her target audience is "DIRTY", save your money and go watch "Star Trek" or "UP" again), but because THIS MOVIE FUCKING SUCKS. A messed up, bloated, nearly 2.5 hour badly shot music video. The robots are TOO detailed, the camera work IS TOO SHAKY (ENOUGH WITH THE SHUDDER CAM FOR FUCKS SAKE!), the story is one big joke, and I swear to my maker DID WE NEED A DAMN TRANSFORMING HOTTIE? No, really, there is a TRANSFORMING GIRL IN THIS MOVIE. She tries to kill Sam Witwicky WITH HER DEADLY TONGUE. She then transforms into a robot and starts shooting. Ok, Megan Fox was there, and that might make me want to start shooting too, but come on, TRANSFORMING HUMANS? This helps explain the "HARVESTER" from Terminator Salvation. It seems both of the scripts got mixxed up and now we have GIANT TRANSFORMERS in Terminator, and Robot Terminators in TRANSFORMERS. WHAT. THE. FUCK. IS. THIS. SHIT?!?!?!?!

The funny thing is, the guys who wrote the script for "Star Trek", wrote the script for this movie. Guess which one is properly reflective of their original content? "Star Trek" and "UP" seem to be the best films of the summer so far, and you notice NEITHER OF THEM HAD STRIPPER FUCKING LESBO TENDENCIES LOUD MOUTH "I AM SO HOT" NEEDS TO BE PUNCHED IN THE FACE FOR REAL PHOTOSHOPPED ASS SHOT ON A MOTORCYCLE WANNA BE ANGELINA JOLIE ruining their movie.

But to be fair, allow me nominate DAFFNEY as Female Wrestler Of The Year 2009. JESUS, SHE TOOK A THUMBTACK SPOT. I really regret missing the chance to meet her in Houston during Wrestlemania weekend. Had I known, had I known, I would have never left Ed from San Antonio's side that night. But sometimes you lose out on special things in order to have other special things happen. In this case, I got a ton of fun out of Wrestlemania weekend, and sleeping those precious few hours that Friday night was key to that. My crowning moment came about 10 days ago, when the Last Ring Of Honor PPV, TAKE NO PRISONERS 2009, aired on Dish Network. I managed to get seen in the broadcast about 5 times total. When the DVD comes out, I will be buying it so I can point myself out in TRUE HD.

But enough about me, Daffney pretty much has been the most fun female wrestler out there the past couple of months. Remember, I never knew she was a wrestler until AFTER I started seeing her photos elsewhere. Model, actress, and wrestler. Damn, that sounds like a good mix. AND SHE TOOK A THUMBTACK SPOT. I marked out so hard for that spot too. That was one of the best moments from this past Sunday's TNA PPV. Daffney, YOU ARE AWESOME. Between that and the promos she gives (IS IT YOU? IS IT ME? IS IT TAAAYYYYLLLOOORRRR? - priceless!), name me another female wrestler out there right now with more versitility. There is none.

Of course, it will now be revealed that Megan Fox slept with Daffney two years ago or some similar soul crushing tale will arise. That is how the world works now - anything you might take joy in gets ruined by someone else who demands the joy be directed through them. Rather than just being able to see a proper retelling of the Transformers mythos, it is slowly getting turned into one big BORING MTV VIDEO. All Transformers 2 missed was P Diddy. Wait, there were "THE TWINS"...

So again, AVOID THIS PIECE OF SHIT FILM. The plot sucks, the robots do NOT make up for the rest of the film SUCKING BALLS, and after that quote above, I think MEGANtron needs a lesson in humility. Let this horrible movie bomb and fade to DVD and BluRay as fast as it can. Don't worry - thanks to the wonders of CGI, MEGANtron's ass will always be perfect, shiny, and like Megan herself, COMPLETELY FORGETTABLE. Please go see "Star Trek" or "Up" and learn what REAL ADVENTURE MOVIES are supposed to be like.

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And now, for your pleasure, my breakdown of his BULLSHIT:

 

1) "If the difference was 100,000 or 500,000 or 1 million, well, one may say fraud could have happened. But how can one rig 11 million votes?"

 

Well, how can one COUNT 11 million votes in under two hours to produce the results they announced BEFORE THE POLLS HAD EVEN CLOSED LAST WEEK? I want the answer to this one. He never mentioned the procedures or how so many RURAL AND OUTLYING VOTES COULD BE COUNTED BEFORE THE VOTES IN CITIES (TEHRAN FOR EXAMPLE). Oh, but he will drop his stout fist on the result. You can rig any number of votes you want WHEN YOU ARE RIGGING AN ELECTION. 1, 11 million, 11 trillion it does not matter much because the votes never were legitimately counted in the first place. So to wit - he basically is saying that the government did no wrong. Would you expect anything less than denial of fault from the guy who called his winner in such a way?

 

2)"Khamenei blamed the United States, Great Britain and what he called Iran's other enemies for fomenting unrest and said Iran would not see a second revolution like those that transformed the countries of the former Soviet Union."

 

Two things to say here - one, the USA has taken a view of silence on this; Obama has already come out and said this is an internal affair. Two, "OTHER ENEMIES" means I-S-R-A-E-L. You notice Iran is not trying to pick a fight with THOSE guys, because ISRAEL would mop the floor with Iran in about a week, just like they do with any other country STUPID enough to fight them.

 

3)"American officials’ remarks about human rights and limitations on people are not acceptable because they have no idea about human rights after what they have done in Afghanistan and Iraq and other parts of the world," he said. "We do not need advice on human rights from them."

 

AGAIN, because your TURBAN IS TOO TIGHT, Obama has already taken a position of non-interference. And perhaps if Iran was not so BAN HAPPY with everything that is NON GOVERNMENT this week, maybe the sight of DEAD PEOPLE or GOON SQUADS BEATING PEOPLE would not be so shocking. The USA is not the one who is censoring Iranian internet, foreign media, and then having a working enough network so any pro-government speech over can be aired across the country, because I do not remember the IRANIAN STATE NEWS SERVICE having issues with their servers, internet, and transmissions. This is like the stupid child who keeps throwing rocks at the sleeping wolf... Except this time the wolf is not really asleep, and knows that it is not going to strike until that stupid child picks up a rock big enough to hurt, which at that point consider the child expendable.

 

So again, the USA is NOT getting pulled into this, and the Ayatollah's words are falling on the ears of people who have already seen the "merciful" Iranian government at work. To quote The Who, "We won't get fooled again..."

 

4)"Some may imagine that street action will create political leverage against the system and force the authorities to give in to threats. No, this is wrong."

 

Actually, YOU ARE WRONG. Because at some point this will create a situation where the Iranian government either conceeds some ground to the protesters, or the rest of the world will suddenly get interested once you "send in the hounds". The thing you have to love about the Iranian government is their confidence. Which will last about as long as it takes for the armies of the world to get their marching orders. No one likes conflict, but once the Iranian government starts shooting its own people and not doing anything about this RIGGED ELECTION, then the world will say "ENOUGH!"

 

PEOPLE OF IRAN - WE HEAR YOU, WE SUPPORT YOUR PROTESTS, AND WE WANT AND WILL HELP WHEN THE TIME ALLOWS IT. But for now, the world is not biting on the paper threats of a desperate government bent on sharing its powers with NO ONE. Keep on protesting, bring your country's commerce to a halt, and protest with the knowledge that when it does go wrong, YOU WILL NO LONGER BE ALONE. But the world must follow YOUR lead. Any other way gives the Iranian government something to use as a bullet point, and that is simply not going to happen this time.

 

Today's sad link roundup:

 

 

 

 

 

You have got to love the IGNORANCE AND ARROGANCE of the Iranian ruling government right now.

 

So let's be clear - Iran has pretty much shut down most means of modern coummication, and yet THEY HAVE THE NERVE TO CLAIM THE USA IS MAKING THINGS HARDER IN IRAN. Okay, you ready? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh please, fuck off clerics. The real issue here is that more and more cracks are starting to show in the Iranian government's handling of what now MUST BE SEEN as a rigged election. I do not remember the USA going to your country's soccer team and making them wear green armbands (which at half time they had to remove or they would be replaced right then and there). I do not remember the USA actually making claims of ANYTHING. Obama has been quiet for a reason. And even with this, you are still hearing the complaints of the government that actually supported the RIGGING OF THEIR NATIONAL ELECTION. What a bunch of hypocrites huh? Makes Islam look fantastic does it not?

 

The problem is that rather than actually rule for the people by the people, regional and culturial differences only make for more hatred. Simple as that. Maybe people are simply tired of 30% unemployment, a President who only seems to embarass his country everytime he speaks (do not feel sad, we just got rid of OURS last year), and a ruling party that based on RELIGION rather than SERVICE. Mix all that up and you got another group of people who only want what is good for them, and if there is any complaints, the THUGS AND GOONS aka the "Local Militia" will be along for you shortly.

 

Just wait until one of those stupid goons kills the wrong person; then all hell is going to break loose. You can surpress all the media you want; you can blame everyone but yourselves; you can make believe whatever you want - the fact is, THE REAL TRUTH is going to get out, and when it is does, IRAN IS FUCKED.

 

That visit to Russia yesterday? Typical. Try and make nice for the TV cameras when there are also photos of people being shot in the street on other channels.

 

This is going to get bloody, and understand Israel is just waiting for the one wrong move, then you can kiss the clerics and Islamic MORONS goodbye. Israel has routed countries in under a week, and Iran, while powerful, would pale in comparison to just how nasty Israel can get in battle. Iran has already made a mockery of what is considered to be a watershed moment in THE HISTORY OF MAN - now may come the time in which THE HISTORY OF MAN decides Iran is no better.

 

There are innocent people dying right now who are dying because they know their votes were stolen. And they are tired of living in the 14th century under rules that the rest of the world can only shrug at. And then to top it off, they brag of having nukes. WHO BRAGS ABOUT HAVING NUKES? Criminals, that's who. The real responible people who have nukes know that is not what nukes are for. Nukes are for making a final statement in a war - and if Iran is not careful, then everyone else who has nukes of their own will start to wonder just when Iran would turn of them.

 

The government is crooked - the religous powers in the country are racist, biased, and would rather kill you than compromise with you. So make all the threats you want Iranian government, at some point you will cross the line, and then your day is done. But understand one thing - no one believes or respect the "Guardian Council" any more than Iranians respected and believed George Bush Jr.

 

Iran - where patience and tolerance are CENSORED from their CENSORED. (Official Iranian press release - reads like it sounds, huh?)