Few people are busier busy-bodies than Jack. He’s been on his own personal crusade for several years to get rid of violent video games. Jack seems to think that violent video games make kids violent, though the research says “no”.
With a brand new Grand Theft Auto game coming out today, I expect to hear more from Jack. He took on the last GTA game, this one will probably be no different. According to Wikipedia:
On March 14, 2007 Take-Two filed a lawsuit to prevent Thompson from preventing the sale of Grand Theft Auto IV and Manhunt 2 to minors, claiming that Thompson’s effort to block sales of its games through lawsuits violates the company’s First Amendment rights. Responding, Thompson said, “I have been praying, literally, that Take-Two and its lawyers would do something so stupid, so arrogant, so dumb, even dumber than what they have to date done, that such a misstep would enable me to destroy Take-Two.” On April 19, 2007, Thompson and Take-Two settled their suit, with Thompson agreeing not to restrict sales through any court worldwide of Take-Two’s games, threaten to sue the company, or accuse Take-Two of any wrongdoing based on the sale of any of its games. According to one analyst, the settlement is likely to mute his public pronouncements and lawsuits against the company.
That sounds like a real money-grubbing swine to me. The asshole sold-out his principals. But, all is not right in Mudville (aka: Jack’s brain):
…Jack Thompson has today persuaded the Miami-Dade Transit System to pull all advertisements for the Grand Theft Auto IV cop-killing simulation game from its bus stops.
In the wake of this success, Thompson is proceeding to get all GTA IV ads pulled from all US transit systems since such ads clearly violate promises made by the [ESRB], found right at its web site, not to place “Mature-rated” game ads in venues that will be seen by teens.
He also blamed the Virginia Tech shootings on video games. Jack has become such a polarizing force in the violent media debate that other organizations that are inclined to agree with him are distancing themselves from him.
Already, other activists against video game violence are starting to distance themselves from Jack Thompson. Earlier this month, the National Institute on Media and the Family wrote a letter to Jack, asking him to remove the link to their organization from his web site.
The latest GTA game, Grand Theft Auto IV, looks to be amazing and I will be buying it. Fuck you, Jack. If I shoot up a public place, then you can gloat. Otherwise, shut up.
I wonder how many Looney Tunes cartoons and “Our Gang” shorts Jack watched as a kid? He’s a real piece of work and a worthy member of the PR Parade of Douchebags.
More than 40 people were taken to hospital — three with serious injuries — after the floor caved in at a packed concert in an Abbotsford, B.C, church late Friday night.
“We were dancing in the front of the stage,” Kyle Weber, a teenager who was at the Christian rock concert, told CBC News. “The floor just collapsed. All the speakers just fell down [and] crashed a lot of people…. A lot of people fell through the floor.”
Ben Stein is at the fore-front of this “documentary”, Expelled, about how Intelligent Design (ID) creation theory is being pushed out of science classes by some “Big Science” cabal.
Yeah, so?
Last time I checked there was no physical evidence to support ID, thus rendering it unscientific.
Now, I haven’t seen the film, nor will I. I have better things to do than listen to the inane ramblings of idiots who want to answer every difficult question with “God did it”. Every review I’ve read of the film says it is a ham-fisted propaganda piece disguised as an “oh, woe is me, I’m being persecuted” film. You used to be funny, Ben. I used to like you on “Win Ben Stein’s Money”. Now you go and affiliate yourself with this?
Here’s my issue… these ID people like to say that they just want “all points of view” discussed. Do these retards know how many different creation stories there are in the world? Every religion has it’s own idea - not to mention every whack-job. It’s not like the two competing theories are ID and Evolution. To open the door to Judeo-Christian Creation means we have talk about every other Creation story as well. Right now I could come up with as valid a guess as ID about how humans came to exist. Here, I’ll do it right now:
Theory: The Universe and everything in it was created by a giant wet fart from Jenu, the butt-baby of Jesus and Xenu.
What about fossils?
Jenu doesn’t chew his food very well.
Why is the Universe still expanding?
Well it was a pretty goddamn big fart. We’re still flying through space from the sheer power of it.
What are black holes?
Jenu inherited multiple assholes from Xenu’s side of the family. Xenu has an incredible number of assholes on his body - most of them in the motion picture industry.
So we didn’t evolve, we just keep digesting into smarter and smarter beings?
Pretty much, only now the digesting has stopped and we won’t get any smarter. We’re just part of a giant poop bubble from Jenu’s fart.
Daddy, what’s Vietnam?
Fuck off.
You see how this works?
Now I want this taught alongside evolution and ID because ALL VIEWPOINTS MUST BE HEARD! I will no longer be oppressed! Stop pushing my theory out of schools!
Maybe I could get Jimmy Kimmel to endorse my documentary. I’ll call it, Relieved of Doody.
The funniest development so far is that the Expelled documentary may be in trouble from Yoko Ono. The film uses John Lennon’s Imagine and the producers apparently didn’t feel like they needed to pay for the rights to use the song since they were critiquing it.
Also, I’m sure all involved were hoping for a lot of shouting and protests from the less religious community and got nothing. There wasn’t even a ripple. Unlike the knee-jerk religious follower, most thinking people realize that making a stink (not like Jenu, though) over some kind of film, book, or TV show just generates more revenue for the product in question.
Who would have ever thought that Yoko Ono would try to win Ben Stein’s money? I’m just going to sit back and laugh while the fruit of their labor rots on the vine.
Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.
Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.
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Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.
For some reason, I’m just not all that concerned about black men who claim that their dicks have been shrunk.
I’m an Opie & Anthony fan and recently they’ve been having fun watching this security camera footage of a 100 year-old woman getting punched in the face and mugged. I should feel guilty about finding this so funny, but I just can’t help it. Here’s the camera footage with Opie & Anthony commentary dubbed in. The audio is not safe for work.
The Participants:
Opie, host Anthony, host Jimmy Norton, comedian and host Jeffrey Ross, guest comedian Jim Jeffries, guest comedian from Australia
I don’t think there’s a funnier culture in the world than the Japanese. It’s amazing what a couple of nukes will do to a culture. Where else can you by used girls panties from a vending machine (scroll a little more than half-way down to see the actual machine).
A favorite site of mine is engrish.com. Engrish, if you don’t already know are Asian Japanese-to-English mistranslations. The Japanese seem to love English words, and better yet, they can’t use them properly so you see signs and apparel like the ones featured on Engrish.com.
I remember reading a guy’s blog about being an English teacher in Japan for elementary school age kids. The guy is black and the Japanese kids were fascinated with grabbing his cock. They wanted to know how huge it was. Apparantly, black guy’s reputations precede them everywhere in the world. This guy’s life consisted of being “it” in a constant game of “Dick Grab” and kancho. Kancho was a game the kids played in which the kids interlocked their fingers except for the index fingers. The index finger stuck out making a gun shape. Now, with weapon in hand, the object of the game was to send the extended fingers up an opposing player’s ass. This poor guy was getting it from both sides.
Their TV is pretty fucked up too. Take a look at the Japanese version of Candid Camera.
Sweet, f’n christ.
I love the weirdness of the Japanese (and their hot chicks).
People like H.L. Mencken make me realize what a vulgar, unimaginative ass I am. Does anyone today have the kind of wit? Has anyone since? Let’s honor this early 20th Century satirist by reviewing some of his great lines:
Misogynist - A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
Democracy is the theory that holds that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Nature abhors a moron.
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don’t want to meet them.
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
There’s nobody like that today. Mencken makes Andy Rooney look like Britney Spears. Who am kidding? Corky from “Life Goes On” makes Andy rooney look like Britney Spears - bad example. The point is that wit like this is sorely lacking in modern times. There are those who come close like George Carlin and P.J. O’Rourke, but no one really stands above it all the way Mencken did.
Jack Thompson is a royal asshole.
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