Wrath of Dagon

Well, we're not required to vote, so why bother? You can vote for the enemy, or you can vote for the traitors who'll deliver you to the enemy, that's not a choice at all. May be the Conservatives will split off and form their own party if they don't get their Presidential nominee, supposedly 25-30% of Republicans are ready to leave. At least there'd be a choice then, and may be a tectonic shift in American politics, which is long overdue, both parties being so unbelievably corrupt.

As the only President to intentionally expose his own people to a Class A bioterrorism agent (as classified by the CDC), he'll always be Obola to me. As far as Bush doing the same thing, not at all. From the link above "on the grounds that they infringe on presidential authority or violate other constitutional provisions" A President does not have to do anything he considers unconstitutional, unless directed by a court. Of course he should really have vetoed the legislation instead of adding a signing statement, but sometimes that may no be practical. Obola did not claim the laws he ignored/violated were unconstitutional, his usual excuse is that "Congress has failed to act" or "We screwed up, but I'll just fix the law by myself". Edit : Hurl is right though, we do need a third party, although what he wants is probably diametrically opposed to what I want. The Republican scumbags lie and lie, then betray the people they claim to represent as soon as they get elected. It's unlikely I'll ever vote for them again.

That's true, but I find the results credible for the reason I stated.

You need to read up on Lincoln if you think Obama is bad about the law. Here is what a lot of the sites you read today would look like if Lincoln were in power: http://www.libertyforlife.com/constitution/politicians/dishonest_abe.htm Here is a less inflammatory version: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/mar/10/ted-cruz/ted-cruz-says-barack-obama-first-president-who-thi/ Lincoln was President during a civil war, what's Obola's excuse? The first link you posted is completely ridiculous, in the second link read Cruz's response, it explains it very well.

Great news, I thought they really missed the opportunity to explore the remnants of original colonies introduced in Mars. Sounds like they're expanding the game just in the way they should, hopefully they'll pull it off.

Obola is the worst president in history because he completely disregards the rule of law, civilization's greatest achievement. The economy might look good compared to the rest of the commie world, but if labor participation rate was the same as pre-recession, unemployment now would be over 9%, and wages have stagnated. Not that it's all necessarily his fault, but by the same token the good things only happened because most of his program was blocked.

The explanation is very simple, right after WW2 everyone knew exactly what happened, so they knew SU did most of the fighting. Now most people only have a vague idea, and they know France was liberated by Western allies, and of course they know more about the Western front, hence the result.

I think it was released for the 360 in Europe, but not in US for some strange reason, so I couldn't play it before. Now I've figured out most games for consoles are on Steam also, and if they're console they also support the controller on PC, so I turned my PC into current gen console so to speak. I'm mostly fighting the militia, but there are some tougher soldiers some times. The knight was so tough I had to assassinate him to win the fight. Depends on the difficulty also, on normal so far I haven't had to be too careful, but probably on hard you'd have to understand all the nuances. Too bad I don't see anything that explains all the stats, like balance, but I'm starting to get an inkling.

The only country doing worse is Sierra Leone, and even there the cases have levelled off according to the RC- and if the rate reduction continues the outbreak will be done in months*. And while it's certainly overly reductionist to simplify every action of the US to 'oil' I'm not sure that someone who was insisting the virus was actually airborne and everyone was lying about it/ it was going to rampage across the US and the world due to 'Obola' is an entirely rational thinking centrist themselves. *Yeah, unlikely since it's far more complicated than a straight rate analysis and extrapolation and there are dozens of factors; but if the doomsayers pseudo statistical 'look at the rates, it'll be infecting 30 trillion people a day in 2040!' panic crap is good for the goose then 'good news, everybody!' anti panic crap is good for the gander. I think you're misrepresenting my position just a tad. It is lucky that Ebola appears to be very infectious only at the very end, else it might indeed have spread like wildfire.

May be it's not genocide yet, but IS would like it to become one : http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/01/18/german-embed-reporter-isis-plans-on-killing-hundreds-of-millions-in-religious-cleansing/

I'm playing "Of Orcs and Men" now, the story, characterization, writing and voice acting are all really good. The combat is kind of like KOTOR without force powers, so not very deep, although it does have a couple of wrinkles, and the game is more combat heavy than I prefer in an RPG, but having a lot of fun nevertheless.

I have a question for the lunatic fringe. If our entire foreign policy is dominated by getting more oil, how come we're not letting Canadians build the Keystone-XL pipeline because that would get us whole lot more oil than some tiny African nation. But undoubtedly there is a large amount of self-interest involved in the fight against Ebola. We don't want it to spread world-wide after all. And good for Liberia, but I don't think the other stricken countries are doing quite as well.

Here's an article about the campaign to shut up critics of Islam : http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/meet-the-honor-brigade-an-organized-campaign-to-silence-critics-of-islam/2015/01/16/0b002e5a-9aaf-11e4-a7ee-526210d665b4_story.html

I don't joke about terrorism, and this is approaching genocide.

There's a mainstream tradition in Islam of taking the Koran literally, while Christianity and Judaism rationalize away things that modern morality finds objectionable. So when the Koran says "You must fight the infidel until they submit" the Jihadists take that as their marching orders. The Egyptian president has just made a very important speech on this very subject : http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/egypts-sisi-islamic-thinking-is-antagonizing-the-entire-world/ Of course Christianity went through it's own very similar period : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Bartholomew%27s_Day_massacre But that was 400 years ago!

I'm afraid the tide of Islamism will not be turned back unless US is forced to intervene militarily in a big way.

I think this explains it pretty well : http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/blame-for-charlie-hebdo-murders

American culture as gnostic conspiracy : http://thefederalist.com/2015/01/02/is-2015-the-year-history-rebels-against-progressivism/ Not sure I'm buying his entire premise, such as isn't the hero's journey supposed to be individualistic, while progressivism is collectivist?

You miss the point if you're focused on the KKK. Most KKK members certainly wouldn't call the KKK a hate organization, and I only mention them (and the Black Panthers) due to the amount of stigma Average Joe perceives them to have, and in case the point wasn't already clear up until the time I mentioned them. I wouldn't feel any differently if some Christians had done the evil deed (some Christians very well may have), that you even ask me that tells me you completely misunderstand what I was saying. You're the one who made the KKK analogy, I was only responding to it. Of course freedom to offend is part of free expression, or are you saying an atheist attacking a religion is not free expression?

Last Light I had to switch to easy difficulty eventually. 2033 I don't remember needing a gas mask in the library, I think I mostly ran from the Librarians. May be restart that level with a guide? Also I don't remember any Librarians in Last Light, or is that in an expansion? In other news, I finished Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments. It actually grew on me more as I played it. I'd say the only downside is you have to go through their check list of clues to find, there's isn't any player initiative there. But it is well broken up with puzzles and minigames, which are pretty good and tend to fit nicely into the investigation. You can also skip almost all of them. You do have some agency in making the deductions, and a few of them you have to pay attention to the evidence and conversations, it's not all explicitly linked to the clues. The stories are quite interesting, the acting and voice work is well done, and some characters you meet are pretty compelling, and even have some emotional resonance, not something I expected. Overall, it does a good job of putting you into Sherlock's shoes, though the ending of the last mission I thought was a bit uncharacteristic of him. A thing to remember to make the game quite a bit easier is that a task will only disappear from the journal once you find all the clues in that area, and something you're examining will automatically be put back/closed only once you see everything you were supposed to. This prevents you from backtracking endlessly to try to find that one clue you've missed.

You analogy isn't exactly right, because the KKK is explicitly a hate organization. This was a satirical magazine that satirized everybody. Christianity is regularly mocked and blasphemed, how would people feel if Christian terrorist murdered the offenders? This is exactly the right analogy here, you can be an atheist and call God a sky fairy and flying spaghetti monster and still no one has the right to touch a hair on your head.

Year in review : http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2014/12/28/davebarry-yearinreview-2014/

It's all the commies' fault: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=260

I think there's only one way to get the radiation suits, at least that's all I found in spite of all my attempts.

The third and final hub (Ganezzar) is firmly set to be released Jan 19, although it won't quite have everything at that point. Also some stuff on their design process : http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/index.php/topic,6067.0.html