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I'm not a big fan of Palin mostly because of her stance on sex education. Promoting abstinence is one thing, but refusing to teach safe sex alongside it is ignorant. Then she compounded the issue when her 17-year old daughter got knocked up. Rather than seeing a possible error in her ways, she stuck to the abstinence policy like a captain on a sinking ship. Of course, Joe Biden is a plagiarist , so I wouldn't read his book either. Unless he plagiarized someone I really like.

Oddly enough, I was just discussing that with my co-workers today. Someone mentioned that UC's are still less expensive than most schools on the East Coast, I wonder how accurate that is.

What about all the other things we vote on? California is actually a fairly evenly split state when it comes to political parties. Just look at the governor, and the recent Prop 8 victory was about as right wing conservative christian as you can get. You can't be serious. California is dominated by Democrats, look up your congressional delegation. Even the governor is a liberal. May be CA isn't as liberal as you'd like, but it's the bluest of blue states. Gay marriage hasn't succeeded in any state's referendum so far as I know, so that tells you nothing. Are you being serious with your bizarre super state idea? You just seem to be looking at things from a very black and white perspective. Nothing in politics is so cut and dry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC-pF3OHY1c Good times, I like to see a little fire in a soccer game.

The problem with that isn't that they are going to eavesdrop on the average joe - there's a lot you can do to take advantage from a surveillance system, politically, for example. Think Watergate... only it would have been as legal as Nixon needed it to be. Union leaders, businesspeople and small time politicians more or less unable to maintain their independence, you name it. Better not open that can of worms. I believe we are talking about the FBI and the CIA running surveillance. These agencies aren't supposed to be involving themselves in politics and labor issues unless there is illegal activities suspected. The press would have a field day, just like with Watergate, if it came to that. Not to mention the real charges in the Watergate case are the breaking and entering, and the subsequent attempt to cover that up. They weren't with the FBI or CIA, it was the FBI that pursued the case. And really, today's politicians don't have privacy at all. They are under the public eye all the time.

What about all the other things we vote on? California is actually a fairly evenly split state when it comes to political parties. Just look at the governor, and the recent Prop 8 victory was about as right wing conservative christian as you can get.

I'd probably rate Dragon Age higher than ME. DA really challenged me with difficult choices, where there was really no clear right and wrong. ME was a bit more black and white. But honestly they are both just fantastic games, and I hope we get quality titles like them on an annual basis.

I enjoyed Mass Effect as well, I'd rate it right along side KotOR on my RPG richter scale.

Is the Expansion pack economic model pretty much dead?

Do you consider California a blue state?

As a dwarf commoner, I had a ton of dialogue choices based on my race.

habeus corpus suspended and warrentless wiretapping ring a bell? Most of the losses have been for immigrants. Habeus Corpus (off the top of my head, I could be wrong) has been suspended for non-citizens. Wiretapping is very easy to get as well, whereas you used to need a warrant and justified cause. The wiretapping does not bother me at all. I'd pity anyone who had to listen to my mother calling me to lay a guilt trip about Thanksgiving.

I'm perfectly fine with surveillance and full disclosure to authorities as I have nothing to hide. The fact is the Big Brother fear is unrealistic, there is only so much surveillance that can realistically be done. I am a big fan of habeus corpus though, and it makes me nervous to see that get suspended.

Really? The Sarah Palin book? I'm a bit surprised GD. It looks and sounds about as uninteresting as watching paint dry.

I think it makes sense that mages are insanely powerful. The can blow stuff up with their minds!

I beat the game, very satisfying. I think I clocked in at around 50 hours and level 19.

They haven't all forgotten, a lot of folks never knew how to play hard games to begin with. Plus, I imagine it is harder to strategize with a controller.

I'm not too worried about user content for DA, the game itself is superb. For NWN, the toolset was what redeemed it.

Two and a half. She's quite a handful. I'm heading out to the hospital, my sister just gave birth to a baby boy! They didn't name it after his Uncle Hurlshot did they? No, despite my pleas. I'm sure Hurlshot will come back around as a trendy name soon enough though.

tl;dr Seriously, that string of posts is pretty much insane. I'd say stop, just stop everything you are doing.

Aww, sorry. I really just don't want to be in the video game industry, otherwise I'd choose you!

I haven't read any of the spoilery stuff above, but I wholeheartedly endorse this point. I read it. It wasn't all that bad, Gaider did a good job with it. I'm a fan of his games so I saw no reason not to support his literary career. But I got no impression from the book that Maric slept with Flemeth. There was some sort of exchange, Maric was pretty much invincible after meeting Flemeth. But it wasn't very clear what she gained. It was a rather vague section.

I want to be Kor Qel Droma, because he lives in Canada and they worship ice hockey up there.

I refer to Morrigan as shallow more because of the whole romance angle, and of course the SPOILER SPOILER and SPOILER stuff.

I love Morrigan, but she is most assuredly shallow. That's a big part of her persona.