Hillary The Beast Clinton & Hollywood
Well I can say that the title of this rant doesn't have anything to do with each other. Just two subjects that have come up in recent times that I --need-- to snarl over. Ze World, she be pissing me off. So lets begin this rant.
HAPPY 420 EVERYBODY! I've recently been asked a couple of times by people of "What holiday is on the 20th". I see this year its becoming to be known as Pot Smoking Day, a certain show i listen too in the morning at work "The Bob & Tom Show" was talking about it. Oh well, unfortunatly I'm currently not smoking, but I still keep the day in my heart.
Begin Rant. While searching around the internet for information, I came across several articles about Hillary Clinton, my search was for the well known game, Grand Theft Auto. Apparently at the end of March, kind of a ploy for her 2008 Presidential Campaign, Hillary is going after Violence in Video Games.
Former first lady aligns with hardline right-wingers to slam Grand Theft AutoNew York senator and former first lady Hillary Clinton has launched an attack on violent videogames, singling out Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto titles as a "major threat" to morality.
Clinton, who is reportedly planning to seek the Democratic presidential nomination for the 2008 election, has aligned herself with hardline right-wing Republican senators in order to pressure Congress into researching the impact of electronic media on children.
"Children are playing a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them," she said in a statement on the issue. "This is a silent epidemic of media desensitisation that teaches kids it's OK to diss people because they are a woman, they're a different colour or they're from a different place."
She wants a $90 million investigation to be launched into the impact of games and other electronic media on the "cognitive, social, emotional and physical development" of children, according to a Sunday Times report.
Clinton has been joined in her attack on violent games by Republican senators Sam Brownback and Rick Santorum - the latter of whom is best known for his outspoken stance on homosexuality, which he is accused of comparing to bestiality in public statements.
American political analysts have noted that Clinton has taken on some increasingly right wing stances on domestic issues in recent months, in an effort to win support from traditionally Republican voters in the next presidential race, with videogames being merely the latest political kicktoy to be adopted by the ambitious senator.
There is the article. I'm pretty sure somewhere in this blog you will find the same rant, but seeing this kind of shit just sparks a fire under my ass. 90 MILLION DOLLARS to study this, anyone else find that a tad high. I'm sick and tired of politicians stepping into the ring against video games, and after reading this I came to realize something very simple. These people do not understand that video games are NOT JUST FOR KIDS. Of course these politicians are old, and I guess I can see where they would make that mistake.
"Children are playing a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them," she said in a statement on the issue. "This is a silent epidemic of media desensitisation that teaches kids it's OK to diss people because they are a woman, they're a different colour or they're from a different place."
Now unless you just don't pay attention to the gaming world, Grand Theft Auto is one of those break all the rules game, namely its the one that has brought up the morals of video games due to its violence, just as Mortal Kombat did originally. The game is about crime, be it drugs, whores, killing people and such. There have been other compliants, the Haitian Government forced Rockstar Games to apologize, since its previous GTA had a mission called Kill the Haitians, which was one of the gangs. But within the game there is nothing "offical" about getting whores and having sex with them, then killing them. And its not like sex is a mini game either, its a very simple process.
There are whores that walk around the life-like city, along with all the citizens. If you have a nice car, you can stop next to one, and they will walk up to the window. After about 15 seconds they'll either get in the car, or walk away. If they get into the car, you drive to a secluded area to "have sex", which is nothing more than the car slightly bouncing. During this time your SCORE aka CASH will go down slowly. Afterwards the whore gets out and you're over. The purpose of this is it will heal you, or if you are fully healed, gives you a boost. And yes, after she gets out of the car if you run her over, you can get your money back. But this is just a little feature, its not a mission, and its not part of the game, and most people probably wouldn't really know about it unless they read it.
But the whole concept of Video Game Violence, and Children is getting out of hand. As TV and Movies, we have a rating system in place, and GTA is rated M for Mature Audiences aka age 17+. But yet with this system in place, children are playing these games, and its very very very very very very very sad why that is, which is kind of a side topic.
Parents are too fucking "nice" to their children now a days, I've seen Nanny 911 and watched in horror as these children just fucking tore the place up, and basically would scream at their parents, demand things and such. For example its like the 5 year old comes in the room and beats his mother with a baseball bat, and afterwards as his mother lies dieing on the ground, she says "Honey, could you please not do that, mommy doesn't like that". I tend to watch Bill Muhr on HBO, I do find him funny at times, its kind of like my "news" of the world since I do pay very little attention to it at times, and he tends to view things as I do.
There is this case where more or less the parents are complaining about RED INK being used in Test Grading in schools. They think a big red X gives the child a negative outlook, that it harms them mentally. I mean what the fuck, as Bill said, god forbid the child might think he didn't get it right, and learn something. Its the same with video games. Parents are not taking into concideration of what game they are getting their children. Either they are just not paying attention, thinking well video games are for kids, so the content will be fine. This I do find hard to believe because the generation that is having kids, grew up in some part of the video game era, at least those with a Atari 2600. Even so I guess no one figured a bunch of squares and circles bouncing around to generic sounds would turn into bloodshed and chaos.
So yes, I think parents are getting way too soft for their children, I'm even seeing this with my sister and my nephew. During our Christmas Vacation up in the mountains, a piece of my 4 year old Nephew's "Sippy" cup disappeared, and she searched for it and slowly got pissier and pissier because HE MUST HAVE IT TO GO TO SLEEP. I'm sitting there getting pissed cause she's acting all pissed off, and I'm like what the fuck, he is 4, he can go to sleep without it. She tends to ask him things, rather than order. Do you want to do this, do you want to do that. Not you must. I can't understand why she is raising the kid this way, cause that is not the way I was raised. More or less both my parents kept the fear of god in me, my father never had to do a thing, for some reason we always feared his wrath, despite him never showing it.
So what you get are these kids who will throw themselves on the floor and have a fit because the parent said you couldn't get that game. And thus we don't want to harm little billy's mind with something negative, they give in and get them a very violent game. The most recent one has a tone of swearing in it, which the previous games did not (funny cause the previous games were more mafia and vigelanty style and the new one is based in an LA like city and black gangs).
So this 90 Million the Bitch wants to spend to study this, is a big fucking waste of the tax payers money. Its been done on television, and as someone pointed out that playing a video game is the same exact thing, except you might be thinking a touch more, and pushing some buttons. This seems like a right-wing thing though, it looks good to the voting public sadly.
Of course another problem is the lack of enforcement on the game ratings, some the major chains like Walmart will actually ask for your ID when its a Rated M game, but alot of places will not. This needs to be enforced, this is half the reason kids are getting these games, the other half is ignorant parents, or parents who do not care.
But also lets take into the fact of what we think of children, since that GTA has been blamed by kids in the past for doing stunts, i've seen at least one case where the kids actually said they were just coping what was happening in GTA, of course these kids were not 17+. Of course concidering today is the Anniversity of Columbine, they were looking at games like GTA. Columbine did not happen because Marilyn Manson sung about violence, or some game showed violence, it happened because these kids were outcasts and more or less picked on, I never looked at their home life but I'm sure at least one of the kids probably had a problem, one had a fucking arsenal in his bedroom which should not be allowed.
Hiliary or HIllary, whatever the fuck her name is seems to be a little pain in my ass, well, not really but she seems to always piss me the fuck off. Worse she is my state senator, and when she was trying to get elected for that, she promised the people in my area that she would help us out. I live in a economically poor area, we're kind of cut off from the rest of the US pushed up against Canada, and lack major corperations for jobs. Did she help us, fuck no. I live next to the St.Lawrence Seaway which is a series of water locks that allows ships to travel between the Great Lakes and the Ocean. When they built the system in the 1950s they based the lock size off the "newest" one down near Lake Erie. Well...by the time they completed the system, the locks were too small for the ocean going ships of the day. Certain types of ships can pass through the system, Lakers is what we call them, ships made to travel this system. To create this system which also included a massive hydro power dam, we back-flooded a massive part of the area, which sunk many towns, espcially in Canada where 10 towns had to be relocated. More or less we create a lake, which along with the towns sunk islands, trees and wildlife. So now they want to increase the size of the seaway, nothing even major, they want to dig the shipping lane from 27 feet to like 30 feet. But noo, the eco-freaks don't want that cause we might harm someone's ecosystem. Hiliary is a big supporter against this, and she is more or less fucking everyone out of here of possibly more jobs.
So its simple, it will be a cold day in hell when she reaches the white house, if I must eat 100 pounds of C4 and go give her a big old hug, and push the trigger, I will. God why won't this southern bitch go back to her own state, oh yeah, cause she and Slick Willy stole a bunch of money.
Someone mention something funny, a conspiracy theroy about this whole 90 million Study. Someone said that if Hiliary raises 90 million, that Bill Gates will also donate 90 million, and someone else would donate 90 million, and they would in turn give this money to the creators of Grand Theft Auto to "retire" and go away, and in turn Bill Gates would design a new computerized tolling booth for the 2008 election that would only pay attention to the letters HRC. I wish I could find it.
HOLLYWOOD, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU SMOKING....
Anyone else thinks that Hollywood ran out of stories to tell? Last year it was like the Remake Movie Marathon of Movies, and it continues into 2005. First we have the Amityville Horror, which I will say looks -entertaining- it its own way, but will never ever be anywhere near as good as the original. Entertaining mainly for the magical computer images. House of Wax is a remake of the 1953 chiller story staring Vincent Price, who was a great artist in sculpting, and created wax figures. He owned a wax museum which was very private, but wanted to buy out his parnter and open up one for the public. A rich guy who was interested had to leave for 3 months, and he would pay upon his return. Vincent's partner in the current museum didn't want to wait for his money, he wanted out, so he sets the place on fire, which of course begins a fight between him and Vincent. In the end the partner gets out, but Vincent more or less in shock as his greatest creations melted away, and remains in the building. Its set in the time of gas lighting, and the partner had blown alot of them out, thus the building explodes. Its assumed Vincent is dead.
Low and behold a few months later, Vincent shows up now crippled into a wheelchair, his hands which he used to create such beaty are now frozen like claws. But he recreates his museum with apprentices, and as always his artwork is very life like...except this time it is. It was an interesting movie, and I had never seen it before, then 2 hours later its bum BUM BUM!! Coming Soon, House of Wax. So I went and looked up the general storyline last night....well I didn't bother to read too much. Co-Starring the Whore of Whores, Paris Hilton. So that movie will blow in many ways.
Now I'll admit that I've watched the Powerpuff Girls, I use to always have my TV on cartoon network, and I saw all the modern cartoons like that, Dexter's Lab, Ed, Edd and Eddy and such. I find them entertaining, I guess I'm a cartoon guy. But over on the web comic Exterminatus Now, one of the writers was ranting about this new Powerpuff Series. More or less its Powerpuff Girls go Anime with a really horrid name, Powerpuff Z. VG Cats kind of also had an article on this, it was how Anime is beaten and raped for american television, at least the more childrens shows. Its just like we've done everything, and now we're just going to repeat things, or recreate them. Its probably why we're making so many comic book movies, because its stories untold. Next they'll have to start doing all the fantasy novels. God knows.
END RANT.