According to Democracy Now, Portland, Oregon has a new pot cafe called appropriately  enough, The Cannabis Cafe.

The shop opened up earlier this month (November, 2009), and although they do not sell Pot, they allow medically licensed marijuana smokers to enjoy a pull at the joint or pipe in a nice, relaxing environment.

Well, let’s see how long this place lasts!

Check out the original post HERE

While writing, I was listening to:

Reverend Horton Heat – Holy Roller – It’s Martini Time

COED Magazine has posted on their blog an article busting the five biggest marijuana myths.

While I don’t need any convincing as to the merits of Pot and how little dander it poses it’s users, I love posts like these. Reasonably well written, it‘s an interesting and informative piece.

Check it out here:

http://coedmagazine.com/2009/11/12/the-5-biggest-marijuana-myths-debunked/

I want to make it clear that I support all the unfortunate but brave men and women out there who are fighting hard against their addictions.

That said…

It’s not every day that MMA and video games collide.

Oakland California is quickly becoming a poster child on how to handle the eventual legalization of Pot.

This Newsweek article titled, “Welcome to Potopia” discusses the city of  Oakland, California’s enlightened, mature and measured approach to the handling of the issue of Pot legality.

There’s a great written article and some awesome video reporting.

Check it out here:

Welcome to Potopia

While writing this I was listening to:

DEVO – Hardcore Devo Vol. 1 74-77 – Satisfaction

So, looks like I will be doing a little rationing of my supply of weed over the next couple of days, as I don ‘t thnk I will be able to talk to "my guy" about getting some. No biggie: just got to smoke a little less over the next couple of days.

This kinda’ reminds me of some great wisdom from Freewheelin’ Franklin of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, “…Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope.”

Damn those were funny comics!

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Roky Erickson And the Aliens – The Evil One – Night Of The Vampire

So, a good friend of mine was riding his bike to work when he was recklessly cut off by an idiot woman on her cell phone. He had to put his breaks on full and ended up going head over his handlebars, breaking his forearm and two fingers along with a black eye and some serious road burn. The driver kept going, oblivious to it all.

This especially sucks as he is a tattoo artist and will now be out of work for a month or two. That’s two months with out income because one stupid human was talking on her phone while driving.

Well, we spent an hour or so talking over Skype. His pain killers that were prescribed at the hospital started wearing off, so we smoked a few bowls of the weed we had (I had some good, but unknown (to me) strain of weed, while he had some blueberry Kush. We got a little fuzzy. I know it helped my Buddy…

After a year of hype, a dubious mark up and tabloid controversy Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 finally arrived on shelves. You know the drill, part one good, part two bad. Here is part one of Bi-Polar Reviews, which I shall now refer to as Bi-Pixel reviews…See what we did there??

Yeah I know we could…a lot better.

The new Modern Warfare is not so much a reinvention of the automatic, but rather, a refined scope to a more than substantial arsenal. As the tired saying goes, it’s the little things that make the difference. If you’ve played a significant amount of the first Modern Warfare, the game will feel dramatically different even though the core is essentially the same. For the developers Infinity Ward, this was a considered choice rather than simple economy. Why change a structure that many rivals have struggled to emulate?

Online gaming shaped the franchise, so understandably, it is this aspect of the game that has been given the biggest revamp. A lot of these changes come via expansions upon the perks concept that became a stable for the original game and a tablet for subsequent multiplayer games. The system of class creation has been expanded in spots and heavily reworked in others. Perks that got a lot of complaints in COD4, like Martyrdom and Juggernaut have been rebranded. The infamous Martyrdom is now a “deathstreak” bonus. If you die four times in a row without killing anyone, your next spawn will give you one instance of Martyrdom. This may not sound like much, but these minor adjustments will enable the gamer to have a more fluid experience – one not buried under several clouds of debris. Juggernaut is gone completely, but arrives in small doses in the shape of Painkiller, another deathstreak perk that will give you triple health if you die three times in a row, a bonus that will only last for ten seconds after spawning. Before I begin to sound like a reclusive Warcraft tactician (Leeeroy!), I will simply say that the new multiplayer experience is a streamlined affair that doesn’t lose the feel of the developers previous release in the process.

The new mode, Spec Ops is a welcomed addition. A series of two player missions, built using chunks of the environment from the single player campaign – help bolster up replay value for the game. There are 23 missions that cover a lot of ground, from stealth missions that require you to snipe from one end of the map to another, to more grandiose battles that pit you against hordes of enemy troops in contrasting environments. All require a level of patience, strategy and skill. However, the ability to revive your fallen soldier makes the mode not nearly as taxing as it might sound.

Then of course there is the single player campaign. Modern Warfare 2 picks up five years after Call of Duty 4 and deals with a conflict between Russia and America. The game is around 5-7 hours long on default depending on your skill level. It’s a tightly packed adventure full of elaborate set pieces and an overwhelming sound board. Missions range from the stealthy, to the vehicley to the ‘oh my god I just stabbed him in the face!’

I’m deliberately talking around the story, but it is safe to say that like its predecessor, the campaign jumps between multiple perspectives. One minute you may be a grunt trudging through a decayed landscape of Afghanistan, and the next you will be member of Task Force 141, working an undercover operation that puts you into that pretty uncomfortable situation you’ve been hearing a lot about recently. The story feels like it’s been given the Bruce Willis stamp of approval. The events of the previous game felt plausible if a bit on the silly side, Modern Warfare 2 on the other hand aims to keep chins on the floor, and then work around that awe.

Modern Warfare subscribes to the more and better theories of sequel design. If you have played the original, a lot of it will feel familiar (possible like this sentence), but you are still in for good value for that hard earned stirling. If you haven’t played the series before, bad guy kills good guy, good guys kill bad guys friend, bad guy kills good guys friend, good guy kills bad guy – the end.

Dré

Dreamkiller este un nou FPS, dezvoltat de Aspyr Media si Mindware Studios, care urmeaza sa fie lansat pentru PC si Xbox 360 in toamna anului 2009.

Dreamkiller va purta jucatorii in cosmarurile sufletelor ratacite, posedate de forte necunoscute. Personajul principal al jocului se va chema Alice Drake, o psihologista care are abilitatea de a intra in visele pacientilor pentru a se lupta cu cele mai negre cosmaruri ale acestora. Jocul va avea o campanie sigle-player de 12 niveluri, precum si un multiplayer online.

Mindware Studios este compania ceheasca cu sediul in Praga, de-a lungul timpului dezvoltand titluri precum Cold War (PC, Xbox) sau Painkiller Overdose (PC)

Windows XP SP3 / Windows Vista SP2 / Windows 7
2.4 GHz Dual Core Processor (Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon X2)
1 GB RAM for XP, 2 GB RAM for Vista
Video: 3D Hardware Accelerator Card Required – 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 256 MB Video Memory with Shader 3.0 support (ATI: Radeon HD 2600 / Nvidia: Geforce 7600)
Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card

Jaquette

Edition du 22 novembre:

J’ai oublié d’évoquer l’existence d’un nouveau Painkiller, sortie il y a pas longtemps. Intitulé Resurrection, cet itération s’avérerait être de moins bonne qualité encore que Overdose… Sic.

A noter la sortie également d’un pack Painkiller: Pandemonium, qui regroupe Painkiller Universe et et Resurrection et qui inclut un éditeur de niveaux, tout ça pour un prix entre 40 et 50 euros…

Fin de l’édition

Roh…… Ça faisait un moment que je le trainais dans mon tiroir (depuis juillet 2009, c’est dire !), et je ne tilte que maintenant… Et vu que ça manque de jeux vidéo ici, je vais faire une pierre deux coups^^

Mais c’est quoi, ça ? Certaines se posent la question (comme p-e Kadaj) et d’autres le savent déjà (Treintafouire notamment^^). Painkiller Universe est un DVD comprenant pas moins de trois jeux vidéo:

-le jeu original, Painkiller; développé par le studio polonais People Can Fly, le joueur n’a d’autre objectif dans ce FPS… Que de tuer du démon. C’est tout;

-sa seule extension officielle, Painkiller: Battle Out Of Hell; toujours développé par People Can Fly (qui sera ensuite racheté par Epic Games), elle rallonge l’aventure principale tout en rehaussant légèrement la technique;

-enfin, un mod amateur devenu jeu commercial à part entière, Painkiller Overdose; conçue par Mindware Studio, le principe reste le même, même en débarquant 3 ans après le premier jeu…

Que valent les trois jeux ? Réponse dans les trois mini-tests qui suivent !

-Painkiller: vous êtes Daniel Garner, et vous avez un petit problème… Vous êtes mort. Damned ! Tandis que votre femme, Catherine, se la coule douce au paradis (elle aurait pu vous attendre !), vous, vous êtes coincé au purgatoire. S******** d’accident de voiture ! C’est alors que Samael, porte-parole divin, vous propose un marché: si vous parvenez à occire l’armée de Lucifer ainsi que ses puissants généraux, vous pourrez envisager de devenir papa au paradis et de pisser sur les gens que vous n’aimez pas. Envouté par ses puissantes possibilités, vous acceptez de devenir le tueur à gages du paradis (qu’on ose dire qu’après, Dieu utilise des méthodes orthodoxes !), et vous vous en allez casser du démon à coup de gros calibre. Oui, je sais, vous êtes pantois devant tant d’originalité et de qualité. Mais le but avoué du jeu n’est pas de proposer du MGS, mais plutôt du FPS pur et dur. Ici, point de subtilité, pas de critères de réalisme (sauf les valdinguages de morceaux d’adversaires, excellemment régis par Havok 2.0), et encore moins de douceur et de liberté: vous entrez dans une salle, les portes se ferment, vous tuez les ennemis qui se ruent sur vous, les portes s’ouvrent, vous passez à la salle suivante. De quoi susciter une mécanique répétitive, mais au final, ça colle bien au concept. People Can Fly veut ici tout simplement revenir aux racines du FPS: on tire, on avance, on tire, on avance… Et ça marche rudement bien ! Graphiquement, bien que le jeu soit âgé (sorti en 2004, quand même), c’est vraiment très joli ! Textures soignées et détaillées, animations impeccables, un level-design parfois à tomber (je pense notamment à la Tour de Babel). Seule ombre à ce tableau: des décors parfois un petit peu anguleux. Mais on ne fait pas bien attention, on est occupé à massacrer^^ D’un point de vue sonore, c’est du grand art: les bruitages sont dynamiques en plus d’être bons (un petit coup de fusil dynamitera la maison avec les hauts-parleurs à fond !), et les musiques, jonglant entre métal bien costaud (slurp) et ambiance splendide (mention spéciale au thème de la Tour de Babel et celle du Monastère), sont une vraie prouesse. Le gameplay, volontairement limité, est tout bonnement jouissif^^ La seule grosse lacune du jeu est le multijoueur, grandement déserté et assez limité par rapport aux ténors du genre. Et puis, il n’y pas beaucoup d’armes (painkiller, fusil à pompe avec geleur, lance-pieux avec grenades, lance-grenades avec sulfateuse et lance-shuriken avec électrifieur). Next !

-Battle Out Of Hell: vous êtes tout content, vous venez de buter le dernier général et vous vous apprêtez à aller rejoindre Catherine. Oui mais non, car c’est pas fini… La dizaine de niveaux ajoutée, bien qu’inégale, et tout aussi soigné d’un point de vue design (vous allez adorer l’Orphelinat, le Parc d’Attractions, la Ville Morte…). Le gameplay reste le même, mais on ne dit pas non aux deux nouvelles armes^^ (mitrailleuse avec lance-flammes et lance-clous avec lance-mines). Les musiques se passent de métal cette fois, mais n’en reste pas moins de bonne qualité (la musique du boss final est sublime :p). Passons au dernier !

-Overdose: vous êtes Bélial, fils du Ciel et de l’Enfer (sacré métissage !) et Maître des Dimensions (vous êtes plein de personnes aujourd’hui !). Lucifer vous craignant comme la peste, il vous a enfermé dans une prison infernale. Tandis que vous regardez avec amour votre triblog préféré, la porte de votre cellule s’ouvre. Lucifer est passé à trépas ! Pour fêter votre liberté, vous décapitez le geôlier et vous vous servez de sa tête comme d’une arme ! Mais par quoi commencer ? Se venger de tout le monde ? Découvrir comment Lucifer est mort ? Les deux à la fois bien sur ! Le gameplay n’a pas changé d’un iota, mais sur certains points ça a quelque peu régressé; par exemple, les munitions sont en quantité bien plus réduites, tant et si bien que certains portions de niveau ne se font qu’avec le painkiller (relooké ici en une sorte de cube magique)  ! De plus, changer le design des armes que l’on connait ne suffit pas à effacer totalement notre déception de voir que le changement n’est pas qu’esthétique… Enfin, et c’est surement le plus grave des défauts: on a vraiment l’impression par moments que le jeu est horriblement mou ! Autres défauts que l’on cite rapidement: premier stage insipide, temps de chargement un poil trop lents, difficulté mal dosée… Hormis tout cela, ça reste un Painkiller honnête, sans surprise mais qui reste efficace par moments.

Notes:

Painkiller et BOOH: 16.5/20

Overdose: 12/20

Note globale: 15/20.

Vous avez trouvé un nouveau chouchou des FPS^^

…. pshhhhhh…. Ils s’approchent … pshhhhhh … doit … continuer … pshhhhhh … au secours !! … pshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Painkiller – Execution Ground

Une grotte glaciale. Je ne sais pas comment je suis arrivé là. Tout ce dont je me souviens, c’est d’une terrible violence. Ça n’a pas duré longtemps. Je ne sais pas trop ce qu’il s’est passé. Ni combien ils étaient. Il semble qu’il y avait un saxophone, et une batterie. Peut-être une guitare, à moins que ce fût une basse. Mais maintenant, j’erre sans but. Il fait froid. A droite, un long couloir sombre dont les murs décrépis suintent de condensation. A gauche, pareil. On peut entendre le vent, un vent qui me glace les veines. Une chauve-souris me frôle le visage. Et au loin, ce saxophone, qui n’en finit plus de résonner. Il revient pour moi, je le sais. La basse et la batterie me hantent, j’ai des flashbacks par intermittences. Pourvu que ce ne soit qu’un cauchemar …

Trio de musique improvisée, Painkiller est l’un des innombrables groupes de John Zorn, saxophoniste/compositeur souffrant d’un degré assez avancé d’hyperactivité, accompagné ici de Bill Laswell à la basse et de Mick Harris (de Napalm Death) à la batterie. A la frontière entre ambiant, jazz et grind (oui vous avez bien lu), Painkiller nous livre là un double album de près d’une heure et demie d’une musique sombre (vous l’aurez compris), nous montrant une maîtrise assez fabuleuse des changements d’ambiance et de rythme (on a du mal à croire que c’est 100% improvisé). Si le premier disque contient encore des passages brutaux, des hurlements de saxophone, le deuxième en est le penchant beaucoup plus ambiant. Un album déroutant, envoûtant et caverneux.

Un très court aperçu de ce que ça peut donner en concert (toujours de l’impro bien sûr) :

Le myspace

L’album en question

Naked City – Leng Tch’e

John Zorn, le revoilà. Cette fois avec Naked City, groupe schizophrène composé de Bill Frisell à la guitare, Fred Frith à la basse, Wayne Horwitz au clavier, Joey Baron à la batterie, Yamatsuka Eye au “chant”, et toujours John Zorn au saxophone alto. Le mot éclectique semble faible pour définir leur discographie : tantôt zapping entre jazz et grind, véritable terrorisme musical, tantôt ambiant, tantôt jazz/surf music. Mais c’est avec Leng Tch’e qu’ils réalisèrent leur album le plus inclassable, le plus extrême, le plus violent aussi, constitué d’une plage unique d’un peu plus d’une demi-heure.

Si j’ai parlé jusqu’à présent de musique d’horreur, on peut dire avec cet album qu’on est bel et bien dans le gore. En guise d’introduction, un entrelacs de larsen de guitare souligné par quelques sursauts de basse. On attend la première note, on attend encore. Déjà on perd la notion du temps. L’attente devient insoutenable. Et puis, au moment où on ne s’y attend plus, ELLE arrive. Pas vraiment une note, ni un accord de guitare. Non, un coup de guitare. Puis un autre, comme autant de coups direct dans l’estomac. On croit à une accalmie, mais ça repart. Ça semble durer une éternité mais, au bout d’un moment, une certaine forme de rythme semble apparaître. Le son est sale, percutant. La batterie commence à marquer le rythme, s’emballe, puis repart. Mais le chant ? Et le saxophone ? Où sont-ils ? Patience. Ce n’est que plus tard qu’ils pointeront le bout de leur nez. Et croyez-moi, ce n’est pas pour le bien de vos oreilles. On peut d’ailleurs avoir parfois du mal à différencier les deux. Maintenant ça crache, ça hurle à la mort. Cet album, c’est un monolithe de violence à l’état pur, à l’image du lynchage public qu’arbore fièrement sa pochette. Cet album, on l’aime tout autant qu’on le déteste (ou on le quitte). A ne pas mettre entre toutes les oreilles…

Allez, pour le plaisir, un grand classique du groupe (avec Saddam Hussein à la basse) :

Naked City sur Jiwa (malheureusement, pas de Leng Tch’e au menu, même si certains tags voudraient le faire croire)

Et, comme d’hab, le sempiternel myspace

Bon promis, la prochaine fois je vous parlerai de la musique de Dora l’exploratrice.

(CFD.net.au – Contract for Difference, Share, Forex, ETFs, Commodities Traders) – New South Wales paramedics say their colleagues have tampered with vials of an addictive painkiller, putting patients across the state at risk.

Police have launched an investigation into allegations several paramedics have been substituting the drug, fentanyl, with other fluids.

Ambulance officers first raised the concerns three months ago but the NSW Opposition’s health spokeswoman, Jillain Skinner, says she has been told paramedics may have been abusing the drugs for up to 18 months.

“This is amazing that you can have an Ambulance Service and a Government that seems not to consider this a risk,” she said.

“If the paramedics have known about it, they’ve been advising the Ambulance Service about it. Why hasn’t action been taken before this?”

The Emergency Medical Services Protection Association has called on the NSW Ambulance Service to recall officers’ kits and replace the painkiller vials.

“The type of vials they’re using are not tamper proof so we want them to withdraw the vials they’re using and bring out a tamper-proof vial,” spokesman Grant Jennison said.

“Patients received possibly a contaminated drug and whether that’s put them at risk is an unknown question.

“We need the ambulance service to withdraw these drugs and to also notify patients that may have received them.”

The Ambulance Service is believed to be investigating the allegations.

Source: Paramedics 'tampering with drugs'

Painkiller oyunun en son capcanlı modeli Resurrection da çıktı. Malum dönem oyun bakımından bereketli dönem. Onun da sistem gereksinimlerini yaziyim:

- İşlemci(CPU): 2.4GHZ+ (çekirdek başına)

- RAM: 2GB ve üstü

- VGA: Radeon 3800 / Geforce 7800 ve üstü

- DirectX® 9.0c (included)

- OS: Windows XP / Vista / 7

- HDD: 6GB

Der dritte Eigenständige Ableger der Serie und damit der insgesamt vierte Titel der Painkiller im Namen trägt. Ich denke es ist Zeit mal zurückzublicken.

Mit Painkiller kam ein cooler Splatter Shooter, indem man lediglich die Maustasten gedrückt halten musste um ans Ziel zu kommen, aber selbst das machte extrem viel Spaß. Farblich gabs hier eher nichts ausser Grau und Braun zu sehen, aber das macht Painkiller einfach aus, Farbenspiele wären hier total fehl am Platz. Der Multiplayermodus von Painkiller brachte das Spiel in die World Cyber Games und andere Ligen wie Clanbase oder ESL. Ausserdem gab es dann noch die CPL, welche einen Cup startete indem der Gewinner 1.000.000 USD gewinnen konnte, ja ihr habt richtig gehört, Painkiller war für den allerersten eSports Millionär auf der Welt verantwortlich, was sagt man dazu? Zu verdanken hatte man das vorallem dem schnellen Gameplay, Movementkrüppel hatten keine Chance wer die Bunnyhoptaste nicht timen kann brauch sich Painkiller garnicht erst zu installieren, aber auch die Competition Mod PK++ machte es zu einem guten eSports Hit.

Leider gab es nach der CPL keinen Anreiz mehr Painkiller zu spielen, vorallem, weil es totgepatched wurde. Die CPL nahm das Patching des Spiels nämlich selbst in die Hand, wahrscheinlich, weil sich die Developer von People Can Fly wohl keine anständigen Skills zusammenklauen konnten. Naja jedenfalls war es noch diesem großen Tunier tot.

Etwas später kam dann Battle out of Hell, das Addon zum Hauptprogramm, welches das Spiel aber nur Singleplayermäßig ergänzte. Weiterging es dann mit Overdose und das war leider total behindert. So behindert das es nichtmal Linux Server gab. Auch die Devs von PK++ wollten diese Schweinerei nicht supporten, nichtmal auf Patches war zu hoffen…

Und nun gehts weiter mit Painkiller Resurrection, das Spiel wird nicht mehr von PeopleCanFly gemacht sondern ist ein Homemade Projekt, was heißt das es von Communityleutz zusammengebastelt und dann von JoWooD gekauft wurde, quasi so wie CS auch nur eine Mod war die später dann von Valve gekauft wurde.

Diesmal gibt es auch Coop und einen neuen Protagonisten der aber 1:1 so aussieht wie der Typ aus den ersten zwei Spielen… oh und es ist StandAlone, kostet nur 30 Euro und hat wieder PK++ support – awesome!

Hasret bitti şahane oyun Painkiller’in yeni oyunun demosu yayınlandı. Ekran görüntülerinden falan o eski havayı tekrar elde ettikleri görünüyor.  Denemek isteyenler için(Boyut: 1.3GB):

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E eu estava lá. Tudo começou com chuva. Pra variar, choveu em Blumenau. Quando cheguei lá, a Steel Warrior nem tinha começado a tocar. Estava passando o DVD do Iron Maiden, pela milionésima vez (esse DVD não fura, acho incrível!).

Steel Warrior fez o show de abertura. Vale lembrar que a Steel, embora seja catarinense, faz um sucesso tremendo em outros estados e outros países, inclusive. É muito triste ver que a nossa cidade não valoriza tanto o trabalho deles, a trajetória da banda como um todo. Mas deu pra sentir a irritação dos integrantes em ver que o público não fazia barulho perto do palco. Podem me crucificar, mas o show principal era do Tim Ripper e eles poderiam agradecer por não terem sido interrompidos com “Ripper, Ripper, Ripper, Ripper!”, etc.

O show seguiu com aquela animação toda, e depois entrou a banda de apoio do Tim Ripper, que contava com a presença da banda Tempestt: BJ (guitarra e vocal), Leo Mancini (guitarra), Paulo Soza (baixo) e Gabriel Triani (bateria). Enfim, o Ripper entrou no palco de boné e óculos cantando Painkiller, enquanto gesticulava para que parassem de gravar. Em músicas da set list como Green Manalishi, reclamava constantemente da luz em seu rosto e chegava ao cúmulo de cantar de costas para o público. Também pediu que desligassem as televisões (aquelas que exibiam o show do Iron Maiden). Só faltava pedir silêncio.

Admito que fiquei um pouco decepcionada com a falta de simplicidade dele. Até mesmo Halford, mais egocêntrico, teria sido complacente com algumas coisas, ou pedido da forma correta para que fossem consertadas. Quero deixar registrado que não fui a única a achar que a postura dele foi incoerente. Na saída ouvi pessoas falando que ele era “igualzinho aos cantores norte-americanos metidos”.

Ao término do show ele se retirou e talvez não retornasse, não fosse o incessante apelo do público, que berrava seu nome. Então ele retornou com Living After Midnight (clááááássico) e retirou-se novamente. Uns vinte minutos depois voltou ao palco, sozinho, e (dali de cima mesmo) se abaixava para tirar fotos e dar autógrafos, desta vez mais simpático. Mas isso tudo aconteceu em cinco minutos. 

No balanço geral, eu que estava muito empolgada com a presença dele, acabei nem tirando foto com o cara. Continuo achando que ele é um tremendo profissional, canta muuuito, mas foi um reclamão. 

Faltou humildade Ripper. Quem sabe num show do Iron Maiden você aprenda com o tio Bruce

Tim Ripper com a equipe da Barba Ruiva Produções

OBS: Apertei a mão do Leo Mancini *-*

Por >PH<

E mais demos estão pipocando pela internet. O primeiro é o novo jogo Painkiller: Ressurection. Painkiller é um velho jogo conhecido pela galera dos jogos de PC, quem jogou lembra muito os jogos Quake e Doom. Com uma nova roupagem, novos gráficos e monstros, Painkiller te levará de novo para a briga milenar entre o céu e o inferno.

Links: GamerShell ou Fangaming

Outro grande sucesso que terá sua demo liberada nessa quinta-feira é o “Ratchet & Clank Future: A crack in time” no Playstation Store. [Uol Jogos] A demonstração, a primeira de duas, conta com uma fase em que o jogador controla Clank, com habilidade de explorar todo um estágio com seu artefato Great Clock, capaz de controlar o tempo.[UOL Jogos].

Bones in Pain

I went to Cebu City on Friday to visit Sun-Star Publishing, for whom I maintain a Wednesday column Breakthroughs, for two private reasons. And also pay two retailers a visit to check supply sales status of my company’s booklets displayed with them. The Lord made a provision for a KMK Bus waiting when I alighted from the motorcab I took from the subdivision where I lived. I expected a light and easy travel with the aircon bus, and only one passenger inside when I came up.

Inside, I took the second seat in the left row located over the frontal tires so I have to fold myself in a slight crunch to fit. But I welcomed the change, which allowed me to put some needed flex on my leg muscles throughout the 30-minute trip. While in that position, I continued to read Fr. Edgardo Arellano’s book on deliverance prayer and healing ministry relatively comfortably. However, along the way, I felt a discomfort in my right rib muscles as if a strain occurred. Still I did not mind the strain; I’m used to discomfort with seats, and the bus was already filled with passengers.

When I came back home, and after supper, the sense of strain turned grew sharper but still endurable. The pain reminded me some years ago when I got bed-ridden from this kind of pain at its worst hitting my rib cages and back; I got to roll from my bed to the ground in order to stand up. And no sets of physiotherapy and chiropractic sessions helped stop the pain. Neither strong-graded painkillers helped. For almost two months without medication, I squirmed with pain each time I move my body even to breath. My sister brought me to a hilot when I visited Mindanao in the second month. When the physical and pharmaceutical approaches failed, I decided to try nutrition as a last resort. I took two calcium tablets three times a day for one month, and scaled it down to one tab three times daily thereafter. In the third month, the pain disappeared.

But yesterday the remained at it seemed to be pulsating already, and the sharp pain because just about bearable. Since the type of pain and the progress looked much like the  earlier one, I started taking one tablet of calcium in the morning and in the evening. After supper, however, the pain becomes unbearable and continuously pulsating so that I have to hold my breath and hold my muscles in contraction in order to move with the pain somewhat bearable. I tried to sleep but I could not. Even lying on my back still left the pain pulsating in my rib cage. I took a strong painkiller, named Arcoxia. I placed a large dose of Tai Chi liniment over it. But after almost one hour (medicines are expected to take effect after 30 minutes when they have already circulated into the peripheral tissues) nothing seemed to happen.

Then it dawned on me that a malevolent spirit brought me this pain unprovoked. But there was no sure way of knowing. Still I felt praying was all there was for me to do. I have one rule in life I adhered most of the time: “If all that I can do failed, surely God will succeed where I failed when that is according to his will for me at this point in time.”

So summoning what I know about the Trinity and strongly believed I placed my left hand on the area and prayed: “You evil spirit who brought me this pain, in Jesus’ Name, get away and leave me alone… Lord, should this pain has been caused by an evil spirit, please help me take this pain away if that’s what you will for me right now. If you want me to suffer this pain because of my sins, let it be so. Let this pain be as painful as it is right now to pay for my sins and for the sins of the souls in Purgatory. But only as you will… only as you will. Amen.”

A feeling of peace and relaxed mind came over me, and I felt a sense of drowsiness. I later realized that I dozed off on the sofa for an hour. So I transferred to the room, with pain already somewhat suppressed, to continue with my sleep. At around 11:00 PM, I woke up with no pain where it  used to be earlier. I got up to look for food to fill my hungry stomach.

In the sala, my eldest son Jason just finished taking a shower and was heating drinking water in the kitchen. I took a meat roll and a liter of Coca-Cola. Jason drank with me the Coke while playing a game of chess. When he went to his room to sleep, I continued to read Fr. Arellano’s book, and finished it in the wee hour.

The whole day today, the pain never returned.

A lot of these can be understood as coincidences. The two tablets of calcium, the liniment, and the painkiller may have worked. And yet either or all may have not work without divine grace allowing their components to do so. I believe that God works with coincidences in order to send graces to his beloved human children. Such how loving our God is!

Verum Serum sets up the hypocrisy of the Democrats:

Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labor under Clinton and more recently an Obama economic adviser, has been all over the media lately shilling for ObamaCare. The public option is no more dangerous than a box of puppies according to this professionally produced video featuring Reich. (I won’t embed it but it’s worth a quick watch.) The real injustice, according to Reich, is that political operatives like us are trying to “confuse and scare” people about change.

So perhaps he can explain for us his comments in the video below. Reich is speaking at a Colloquium on Political Science at UC Berkeley on Sept. 26, 2007. No other set-up is necessary – watch:

Listen to the words of Robert Reich:

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Here’s a transcript of the most relevant remarks of Robert “Third” Reich:

I’ll actually give you a speech made up entirely, almost on the spur of the moment, of what a candidate for president would say if that candidate did not care about becoming president. In other words, this is what the truth is and a candidate will never say, but what a candidate should say if we were in the kind of democracy where citizens were honored in terms of their practice of citizenship and they were educated in terms of what the issues were and they could separate myth from reality in terms of what candidates would tell them:

“Thank you so much for coming this afternoon. I’m so glad to see you and I would like to be president. Let me tell you a few things on health care. Look, we have the only health care system in the world that is designed to avoid sick people. And that’s true and what I’m going to do is that I am going try to reorganize it to be more amenable to treating sick people but that means you,  particularly you young people, particularly you young healthy people…you’re going to have to pay more.

“Thank you.  And by the way, we’re going to have to, if you’re very old, we’re not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It’s too expensive…so we’re going to let you die.”

Pay more, old people die.  Check, and check.  Sounds like exactly what any big government fascist would want.

“Third” Reich isn’t the only one pointing out this actually quite obvious central tenet of the Democrats’ health plan.  Obama has appointed at least two other “experts” to advise him on medical issues.  Here’s White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s brother, Ezekiel Emanuel, whom Obama appointed as OMB health policy adviser in addition to being picked to serve on the Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research:

“When implemented, the Complete Lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated… The Complete Lives system justifies preference to younger people because of priority to the worst-off rather than instrumental value.”

“Attenuated” means, “to make thin; to weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value.”  Attenuated care would be reduced or lessened care.  Dare I say it, in this context it clearly means, “rationed care.”

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel included a chart with his work (available here), which shows how he wants to allocate medical resources under a government plan:

When you’re very young, or when you start reaching your 50s and 60s, you start receiving less and less priority.

Then there’s Cass Sunstein, Barack Obama’s Regulatory Czar, who wrote in the Columbia Law Review in January 2004:

“I urge that the government should indeed focus on life-years rather than lives. A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.”

Barack Obama’s Regulatory Czar explains:

“If a program would prevent fifty deaths of people who are twenty, should it be treated the same way as a program that would prevent fifty deaths of people who are seventy? Other things being equal, a program that protects young people seems far better than one that protects old people, because it delivers greater benefits.”

There’s a great deal more about Obama’s own advisers’ plans here.

Which very much jives with what Obama himself told a woman concerning her mother:

“At least we can let doctors know — and your mom know — that you know what, maybe this isn’t going to help. Maybe you’re better off, uhh, not having the surgery, but, uhh, taking the painkiller.”

We can sum it up quite nicely with the words of Obama’s former senior economic adviser: “So we’re going to let you die.”

Sarah Palin just cut right to the chase back when she wrote:

The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.

And for all the hell that the servants of hell have unleashed on her for her comment, she was 100% correct.

The entire plan is evil:

And, yeah, there really are things that can very legitimately be called “death panels.”  Take “The Death Book for Veterans” – which George Bush banned and Barack Obama demanded be reinstated – that required veterans to consider life and death from a bleak perspective and consider euthanasia to avoid being a burden.  My article on that discovered some dishonest federal government shenanigans when that story was exposed as the VA sought to cover up the role of the Hemlock Society.

We’re seeing the genesis of a genuine holocaust beginning to emerge.  The Democrats’ plan will force health insurers to cover everyone regardless of whether they have a pre-existing condition, regardless of whether they honestly represented themselves when they obtained their insurance, and regardless of whether they can even pay for their coverage.  And the system the Democrats are creating completely depends on young, healthy people who have historically not bought medical coverage.  You can’t add massively to the costs of providing care if you don’t have at least an equally massive inflow of dollars coming in.  If young people who have never bought medical coverage before don’t buy coverage in huge numbers, we will very quickly face critical shortages, and massive rationing of care – particularly to the elderly who have less value under the Democrats’ plan – will ensue.

And I don’t mean just pay the “individual mandate” fines – which have been watered down significantly to make the Democrats’ plan more palatable – because they don’t create enough revenue.  I mean if they don’t purchase health care in huge numbers, we will see serious shortages, rationing, and death by medical neglect.

Harry Reid made a staggering admission while trying to prevent Democrat-special-interest anathema tort reform.  He said:

HARRY REID: “He talked about CBO saying that there would be $54 billion saved each year if we put caps on medical malpractice and put some restrictions — tort reform — $54 billion. Sounds like a lot of money, doesnt it, Mr. President? The answer is yes. But remember, were talking about $2 trillion, $54 billion compared to $2 trillion. You can do the math. We can all do the math. Its a very small percent.”

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The Democrats’ health plan will be FAR more costly than any estimates yet offered.  The government ALWAYS underestimates its cost for its programs.  Medicare cost nine times more than was estimated, for example.

And let me point out that figures such as Robert Reich, Ezekiel Emanuel, and Cass Sunstein are proponents of the Democrats’ system and believe it will go well – AND THEY ARE STILL TELLING US THAT A CENTRAL PART OF THE SYSTEM WILL BE TO ALLOW ELDERLY PEOPLE TO DIE.

Democrat Rep. Alan Grayson “warned” Americans that “Republicans want you to die quickly” during a floor speech in the House of Representatives.  But he is a liar.  It is not Republicans who are literally out talking about letting people die, but Democrats.

Please come to your senses and start denouncing the Deathocrats’ Death Panel bill.