The national lead from today's Boston Globe:
Balloon-boy
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Are you crappin' me a piece of coal, Glob?
And look who is coming down the chimney:
"In hearings at Guantanamo Bay, the five detainees have trumpeted their role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and broadcast their fealty to Osama bin Laden."
Hey, another figment of the imagination and fairy tale just like Santa.
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Did the WaPo mention the torture that produced the "confessions?"
Related:
"Mohammed was warned that his children we're going to be killed in the event of further attacks in the US. Another alleged al Qaida member was allegedly told that his mother would be sexually assaulted in front of his eyes if he did not speak."
Ever notice that when "enemies" torture you CAN'T BELIEVE THEM but when AmeriKa does it -- ALL TRUE!!!!
Oh, sorry, wrong bin Laden terrorist: Bin Laden daughter escapes house arrest
Related: PROPAGANDA ALERT - Bin Laden's Closest Family Found Hiding in Iran
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Yeah, I thought I smelled something.
And it has always been a tradition at my house to let the kids open one gift on Christmas eve:
"Gory games offer surprises" by Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff | November 26, 2009
In one of the game’s scenes, you play a CIA undercover agent who has infiltrated a terrorist cell.
Are you sure this is a video game?
Sounds TOO MUCH like REAL LIFE (does the CIA agent create the "Al-CIA-Duh" network, too?).
You and your new pals stride into a Moscow airport and start machine-gunning defenseless travelers. For the next several minutes, you watch as helpless people are murdered. If you wish, you can shoot a few yourself. And no, you can’t turn your gun on the bad guys, or you’ll lose instantly. They are supposed to think you’re with them. It’s the ugliest thing I have ever seen in a video game.
Imagine then, Globe flak, that it HAPPENED in REAL LIFE because IT DID!!!
MORE than ONCE!
They are called FALSE FLAGS and INSIDE JOBS and I KNOW YOU KNOW what those terms mean!
The game designers, to their credit, allow players to skip the mission, a right I exercised. But I couldn’t skip the rest of the game; it’s just too good. Despite its appalling lapse in judgment, Modern Warfare 2 is sensational, and not to be missed....
Looks like I picked up the wrong game for the kid, huh?
I didn't know which one I was grabbing, readers.
I f***ed up as young person; I bought books.
I didn’t expect to like Left 4 Dead 2, especially after seeing the game’s gory opening video. But blasting and braining zombies is more fun than I’d expected....
I'm starting to think that THIS GUY is REALLY SICK, readers.
Figures that he writes for the newspaper!
Must be LOVING the REAL ONES his puke paper helped LIE US into, and the FUTURE WARS they are working on now!
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Maybe we could get some quality control guys to look at these mass-murdering spree-fests:
"Video game creator Harmonix lays off 39" by Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff | December 12, 2009
.... Even as it announced the job cuts, Harmonix said that The Beatles game has sold more than a million copies. Some industry analysts have said that sales of the game failed to meet expectations. But Jesse Divnich, industry analyst at Electronic Entertainment Design and Research in San Diego, said the game has been a solid success for Harmonix and its parent company, Viacom Inc.
Then WHY the CHRISTMAS AXE for the employees?
“Selling over a million games puts you in the top 5 percent of all games,’’ Divnich said. He added that Harmonix’s reason for the layoffs made sense because there’s less need for quality assurance workers once a game has been released.
Yeah, right. Remember all the problems with the X-Box?!!
Still, it’s been a rough year for the video game industry.
It wasn't six months ago!
Related: Video Game Schills
WTF, Glob?
Whatever lie serves the agenda-pushing purpose at whichever time, huh?
NPD Group, a research firm, reported that overall sales in the first 11 months of the year are down 12 percent from 2008. NPD also found that November video game sales are down 7.6 percent from last year. Harmonix said the layoffs will not affect the development of products. The company is at work on the Rock Band Network, a system that will let real-world bands create songs that can be distributed over the Internet to players of the Rock Band games.
Those seem better than the war games -- which probably means they aren't as fun.
Isn't that why the workers are being cut?
--more--"Well, time to put out the cookies and milk for Santa and get to bed.
I'll close by wishing a HAPPY CHRISTMAS to ALL, and to ALL a GOOD NIGHT!!!