Where did that blog go? Coulda sworn it was here.

Well, I guess I'm not so good at this blogger thing. Okay, I'm going to post everyday starting..............now!

The news today had one teensy tiny little bright spot. John F. Kerry's vietnam service medal records have been officially OK'd by the United States Navy's inspector general. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news/kerry_navy_awards
The Navy conducted the investigation at the behest of Judicial Watch-www.judicialwatch.org, a "bi-partisan" public interest group. I wonder how this investigation serves the public interest? In one respect it does, I guess. Hopefully, the people who were likely to believe the lies about Kerry's war record will now, at least, cross that off the list of reasons to dislike the guy. Well, it will likely never change the mind of the people who spread these lies. And to them I say, SUCK IT LIARS!

On another piece of politically slanted news: Phil Parlock, a staunch WVa Republican and serial victim to liberal "thugs"www.democraticunderground.com, may have been outed as one of the most talented brownshirt thespians to ever smear the "thuggish" left. The rumor is that the latest event, which involved his 3-year old daughter and a mean old union guy who ripped the bush/cheney 04 sign out of her cute, helpless little hands-www.herald-dispatch.com/2004/September/17, may have been staged by Parlock himself. I will hold off passing judgement until all the facts are in. But if it is true, DAMN what a crackpot! It boggles the mind what some will do to paint "the other side" as vile and malignant to the American Way. I can't for the life of me wrap my head around this one. Seriously, what does he get out of doing something like this-if it's true? What his is reward?

I can at least see the Swift Liars point of view. They're pissed off at a fellow veteran for basically- as they see it-pissing on their, and all other's, service in vietnam. Which I disagree was Kerry's intention. Hell, the SBVT believe vietnam was a just war! Talk about delusional! The point is they hate Kerry and believe HE is unfit to lead our nation. They're not running around staging guerilla theater to paint all liberals as thugs. Whether you believe them or not-why would you?-they're not commited to bringing down liberalism in America, which seems to be Parlock's goal in life. If the rumor is true about this guy, he needs to BE COMMITED. That man has some serious issues.

Okay enough about that.

Two games that I am currently playing: Doom 3 and Manhunt for the PS2.

I'm finished with Doom3 and I have to say I wasn't too thrilled with this game at the beginning, but towards the very end it got entertaining. Review is on the way.

Manhunt. Hmm. Manhunt. I bought this game because it was in the preplayed/cheap aisle at EB Games. What to say about this game? It's a Rockstar production-www.rockstargames.com. That should clue in most people who have played their form of entertainment-vicecity to the complete banality that is a Rockstar production. Having played Grand Theft Auto-and been mildly entertained by the level of completely irrelevant violence that I could inflict on the denizens of Liberty City, I thought I'd give them another shot at really abusing my common decency meter. They may have succeeded. While I wasn't shocked at all by any of the ultra-violence, save for the "machete execution"-oy, that one wrecked me-I was completely put out by the fact this game got made at all.

THERE IS NO GAME HERE. You run around a bunch of levels killing thugs viciously. That's it! Needless to say, I was bored with "gameplay" after only a few levels. At least with GTA, I could just skip the gameplay and go right to the spree killing of citizens. Yeah, not much there either, but it was loads more fun trying to create so much havoc and murder trying to get the six stars necessary to get the army chasing me than it was to actually play through the linear "story" aspects of the game. With Manhunt, I'm stuck with the story. Not so fun. I'll probably finish just cause I feel I have to finish every game I start. But I give manhunt a complete zero. I'm glad I only paid a few bucks for it. Rockstar should have had the common decency to shelve this game before they reached their first milestone in the production. Nuff said.

Sketch: 30 minutes. no reference