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So the American public is probably going to end up bailing out the greedy Wall St. fat cats who’ve all but destroyed the economy (while getting personally rich) and what does McCain have to say about it?

Not a lot since he is apparently a bit shit at economics, or so he himself said. Which is a bit of a problem since the economy is pretty much the top issue in the election now.

What’s funny in this video is how it takes him about half a minute to say a ten second sentence because his brain can’t keep up with his mouth so he has to say “uh” after every word. Also plumping up an answer with lots of names doesn’t make it a better answer.

Oh and zero interest rates? Even I know that’s just stupid and I don’t really understand economics. Bet the Republicans are really wishing they could change their candidate now.

November 7 can’t come close enough so we can all just forget about this old retard. McCain is prolly thinking the same thing, only six more weeks and then I can go back to the nursing home…

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This post doesn’t really need words. Just a link.

Am I the only one that thinks that’s just scary?

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Back during E3 Bungie had a little viral campaign going on that many assumed would be to announce some sort of new game. However no one got to find out because Bungie’s “publisher”, Microsoft to you and me, pulled the plug.

Two months later and Bungie has finally been able to spill the beans. It looks like it’s gonna be some sort of Halo campaign add on featuring ODST’s from the game.

This kinda pisses me off though because if the game is gonna be set from the perspective of an ODST then it’s not really Halo 3 is it? I really hope it’s actually gonna be a game like Star Wars Republic Commando or Rainbow Six but set in the Halo universe.

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Microsoft kicked off it’s latest 360 ad campaign, obviously meant to capitalize on the fact it’s now only $199, and it’s really quite creepy.

The ad shows a girl staring just below the camera and she starts slowly smiling. The camera pans round and it turns out she doesn’t have a back to her head. Oh and there’s a band playing Rock Band in there.

Watch it for yourself and you’ll see.

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Last month I changed game rental company to a company that would allow three games on rental at a time.

My previous one only allowed two at a time and with the slew of incoming games I figured I’d need it.

However after a couple of weeks I’ve switched back to my old company since the new one was taking forever sending me games.

But I figured since there’s so many games coming out between now and Christmas that having two rental plans totalling five games might be a good idea.

Considering both of the plans combined comes to less than the price of buying one game it’s pretty much a bargain.

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Heroes season three started tonight. It hasn’t been on the air since the writer’s strike cut season two in half, and frankly I think we were all glad it did.

The two part opener was pretty darn good and a real return to form. Hopefully they can keep up the momentum (and the not so good tv numbers should tell them they really have to) and not slip back into a slump.

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Tim’s coming to visit at Christmas and I’m sort of anxious about it. So I figure I would take a leaf from his book about talking more about my feelings and explain why.

Obviously I cannot wait to see him again and it’s gonna be awesome spending another Christmas with him. This’ll be our third Christmas together and I just love spending the holiday season with him.

This’ll be his first visit to Scotland so he’ll be meeting my family for the first time. Our relationship obviously isn’t very conventional so I’m a bit anxious about how they’ll take to him.

He’s almost old enough to be my friends’ Dad so it’s gonna be interesting to see how they respond to him. I’m most….worried(?) about Amy’s interaction with him because obviously she is my best friend so I want them to get along. I hope they do but Amy was quite vocal about Tim when I told her about him all those years ago, I don’t know whether her feelings on the subject have changed or not.

Luckily Tim doesn’t act 40 so hopefully that’ll ease things. I don’t think of him as old and he has no problems around Alex and Ducky who are closer to my age (early twenties) so I think things should be ok.

My family will be another matter. For Christmas day thankfully it’ll just be at home with immediate family. Me, Tim, Mum, Linzi, Ross, Callum and Gillian. I don’t see any problems there except that it’s the first time me bringing a boyfriend round.

During the day on Christmas we’ll prolly head over to my Dads which should be interesting. My Dad pretty much buries his head in the sand about my being gay and my relationship with Tim. Which is fine if that’s what he wants to do.

However when Linzi has taken Callum over on Christmas Day before, he’s always had presents. It’ll be interesting to see whether Tim gets presents or not. If he doesn’t, I’ll be pissed. And I realize that makes me sound like some kind of spoiled brat but it isn’t about the presents, it’s about the recognition.

On Boxing Day we’ll prolly head to my Aunt’s house for a big family dinner, which is where the potential for problems is prolly the biggest. Since my aunt outed me to my Grandparents, it’s gonna be much more obvious what Tim is. It’s one thing for them to accept me as gay, quite another to accept I’m dating someone twice my age.

You know what? Fuck being anxious. Fuck getting worked up about what people think. Fuck people who can’t accept it. If anyone kicks up shit, they’d better be prepared to not see me for a long time. Yes I know that sounds melodramatic but if it came down to Tim or my family (and I mean my extended family since I know my immediate family are cool with it) then I know who I choose.

And I dare anyone in love to say they’d do it differently.

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Tim posted something on his blog that made me think. One of his friends (I still think of most of them as his friends since I only see them three months a year) is apparently voting for McCain.

Now this makes me think for a couple reasons. This person is gay, yet McCain wants to amend the constitution to ban put pretty much every obstacle he can in the way of gay marriage. I’m not big on marriage but if I was told I couldn’t get married I’d be pissed.

Of course then there’s the issue of that if there’s no gay marriage/civil union amendment then Tim has to move here which neither of us really wants since I wanna be in the States and moving would be a huge thing for him. So does this person not like us?

But then I think, there’s bigger issues than me but I think if I was in their position I’d prolly choose issues like that that will affect me and my friends/family.

And really, does anyone in the US actually think McCain is gonna be better than Bush? What has McCain been putting in the water to brainwash people into voting for him? Cos I really don’t understand how any right minded person could vote Republican come November.

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Ok this guy is a complete twat. How can they let him on the air? I’ve only watched one video (thought I think I’ve seen a couple more before) for four and a half minutes and I already want to see no more of him. What kind of people actually sit and watch his show? He doesn’t listen to anything the woman is saying (and she’s completely right about the whole thing) and he thinks if he talks over her then he’s right. Fucking. Moron.

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On my iPod Nano I have it set to shuffle songs so when I go to an album I can choose to listen to a specific song and then it will shuffle through the rest of the album.

However on the iPhone you only have the option to either shuffle all songs (and have it pick a random starting song) or else pick a song and then it will finish the album.

Sure it’s a little thing but it’s rather annoying.

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