This article traces it back to fears of jews and immigrants... Hmm...
To be honest, I have no idea why people are terrified of some sort of evil banishment of Christmas. People celebrate it year after year. The worst is when people think that phrases like "Happy Holidays" somehow are threatening. The intellectual dishonesty is striking when they try to say that people are being PREVENTED from saying Merry Christmas, which is simply not the case.
It's also worth noting that the very same people who tend to fear Christmas are usually against marketplace regulation, until the stores they visit stop catering to their own whims, then suddenly they want them regulated to force them to say Merry Christmas and if there aren't two Santas for every Manora, there's evil afoot!
Really bad. I actually had to delete some it because I couldn't stand the thought of someone else reading it.
On the other hand, the fact that I know it's bad and, more importantly, can tell why it's bad does give me some additional hope for the stuff I'm writing at the moment.
I've been converted to the Dark Side and feels soooooo good. Haven't turned on the Wii in the months, only came back to the Xbox360 to play a few games that had their PC versions delayed [bleh], and my DS is under a pile of dust somewhere.
... More than double the combined total of the PS2, PSP, and PS3 all combined for the month. Over double the X360's total. The Wii outsold the PS2, PSP, PS3, and X360 all combined; the DS didn't do that, but it did sell nearly twice what the X360 did, or a lot more than PSP, PS2, or PS3. :)
The X360 did sell double what the PS3 did, though, so MS has something to be happy about too... and an X360 game was first on the sales charts. But Sony... yeah, Sony's in trouble. :)
But two million in November... it's a new record. That's never happened before. Sony's 2.7 million PS2s in December 2002 is evidently the record, but they had 1.3 million that November... the only question about December is, how many Wiis will Nintendo have? They'll obviously sell whatever that number is.
As for games, Nintendo obviously isn't doing well there, for hardcore gamers. Their focus has been so strongly on the casual... still, if I had a Wii this year, I'd definitely be wanting the Wii Wario Land game for sure, at least... but yeah, between Wii Music and Wii Fit, it's obvious what their focus is at the moment. But still, they do have SOME games for the base in development... but I definitely never would have guessed that success would actually lead Nintendo to arguably release fewer (first/second-party) games I care about on this platform than their last two "unsuccessful" ones. But if all of the stuff we're hearing coming up comes that might be different... Sin & Punishment 2, Pikmin 3, "new Mario and Zelda", etc.
Quote: BCS DECLARES GERMANY WINNER OF WORLD WAR II
US Ranked 4th
After determining the Big-12 championship game participants the BCS computers were put to work on other major contests and today the BCS declared Germany to be the winner of World War II.
"Germany put together an incredible number of victories beginning with the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland and continuing on into conference play with defeats of Poland, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands. Their only losses came against the US and Russia; however considering their entire body of work--including an incredibly tough Strength of Schedule--our computers deemed them worthy of the #1 ranking."
Questioned about the #4 ranking of the United States the BCS commissioner stated "The US only had two major victories--Japan and Germany. The computer models, unlike humans, aren't influenced by head-to-head contests--they consider each contest to be only a single, equally-weighted event."
German Chancellor Adolph Hiter said "Yes, we lost to the US; but we defeated #2 ranked France in only 6 weeks." Herr Hitler has been criticized for seeking dramatic victories to earn 'style points' to enhance Germany's rankings. Hitler protested "Our contest with Poland was in doubt until the final day and the conditions in Norway were incredibly challenging and demanded the application of additional forces."
The French ranking has also come under scrutiny. The BCS commented " France had a single loss against Germany and following a preseason #1 ranking they only fell to #2."
Japan was ranked #3 with victories including Manchuria, Borneo and the Philippines.
United States head coach Harry S. Truman was criticized by many as having poor taste for scheduling a "politicking" interview during halftime of the German bombing raids over Great Britain.
In that interview, Truman stated, "Any way you look at it, there is going to be a really good military force that gets left out. But when you come right down to it, our head-to-head victory over the Germans has to be the deciding factor."
A US fan also made the point that "Germany is getting all the style points right now because of their sexy offense, which continues to obliterate weaker opponents and show off their might after the battle is already won. But what about defense?"
Not sure where it came from originally, but it still has me laughing for all the right reasons.
So I saw a commercial on TV that confused me more than McDonald's selling pizza instead of McNuggets cause the queen of England's in her period...
So, anyway a commercial comes on, and they say something about some weird disease, dioxicloses or some weird shit. I don't know. And that if your old and have Medicare they'll do something about it for free. So I think maybe there a pharmaceutical company or something.
So this is were it gets confusing... Anyway in the commercial they talk about that they will deliver straight to your door. So the delivery guy comes to the old guys door with a box as big as the one my server came in. So I get really confused, is this a pill or something you get? Is it fifty feet high? Or is there 90,000 pills in the box? What the hell.
Then it gets really confusing....
They start going on about if its not wright brand they will "try again"....
So wait... If they screw up, they apologize and try again. Guaranteed!
And then the confusion scale breaks in half, and my brain shits its pants...
Literally...
Theres a random montage of brand names of medical brands that start flying across the screen. Each medical brand has nothing in common with the other, ranging from lubricant (Yes Medicare Will Apparently Pay For My Lube) to Depends!
So, wait... Are there diapers in the big box?
Does dioxicloses mean your old and shit your pants allot?
Why couldn't they just say that to begin with. I'm not a doctor... I don't speak Latin I don't know what hell that means.
Here's what I would have done if I had produced the commercial.... (So as not to confuse the fuck out of people)
Scene opens to a man shitting his pants... Announcer: Do you shit your pants? Old Man: Yes I do! ........ Alot! Announcer: Medicare will pay for your diapers. We will dilever! Old Man: Neat!
Now the rest of that shit... The montage of other random medical shit including lube. I have no fucking clue. Your on your own...
Stop pissing my off TV! I love you so much, stop putting a wedge between us pharmaceutical companys. I hate you for it.
So for some reason, they changed the whole login system, and now I can't get into my account... try to log in and it tells me I need to link my account to a new email account or something like that, but try THAT and it tells me the email has already been used, either because it's used by my Gamespy/Fileplanet account (as my other webmail account is), or because it's used by ... the account I'm trying to log in to.
So, I can't log in because I can't use the email that's currently attached to the account to log in to that account, and I can't change the email to the email it currently is because that email is currently used, even though the fact that it's currently used should mean I should be able to log in to it? Um... yeah, I'm completely confused.
Or do I have two IGN accounts, one with each email address, and now I can't use the main account because I need to change the email account it uses because I can't have the same email account linked to my Gamespy/Fileplanet and IGN accounts now, even though I did before? That would be weird... but it's possible, for some odd reason, I guess... though I really thought the IGN account used one email and the Gamespy one the other...
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