It is good to be the king…
This post here will consist of two mini-rants. Since I know nobody actually reads the full content of my posts, I’ve decided to shorten/condense them a lot to make them less intimidating. My hope is someone will read them, realize I have a lot of good stuff to say, and maybe think better of me for it. Selfish in the extreme, but everything is. Hmm
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The US does have a role in keeping down the suicide bombers, and it is certainly in large part that we got our asses involved that they're going on. Now, what isn't fair is to lay the blame entirely on the US. My general feeling is that most everyone fucked up somewhere, and most everyone is damn greedy. And thus, it's not necessarily the people of Iraq that are at fault, or the US, or any one group, but humanity per se. People'll always continue to screw someone over if they get something out of it.. way of life for most of us. Sad, but somehow how things have happened to be.
As for Valve and DOD.. I don't know a lot about the company. I've played the original mods for Halflife, and the first Halflife well past it's introduction, and thus I missed the hype. Only played Halflife 2 in these past few months, and only briefly. Just be happy that Peter Molyneux isn't having a hand in the development. It sounds a lot like Fable. Bloody thing was released well over a year past it's projected date, with a mere fraction of what they had planned. Hell, they actually had more content in beta (possibly alpha as well) than the final release, for reasons that still make my eye twitch.
That being said.. I heard he also has a game that's been in development for seven or eight years.. pretty sure it was due to be done ages ago, and it's nowhere near completion. It could be worse, but besides that one man, I'll hand it to you, it isn't that great.
"Allah (the god of Islam [and Christianity and Judaism])" -- That makes my day. It's funny because it's true!
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There is a terrific column by David Brooks that ran some months back called "The Cult of Death". I suggest you read it. It's truly an amazing look at the "islamic radicals".
Dont make me add that in the Qua'ran, in every translation, is a passage telling Moslems to respect the People of the Book (ie. Christians and Jews), and indeed, the Moslem faith draws its lineage from the very Abram who is said to be the founding father per se of Judaism and indirectly Christianity. Moslems believe they are descendant from Ishmael, the first son of Abram, who was cast into the desert by Sarai, Abram's wife. From Genesis 15.1.11, (new Revised Standard)
"And the angel of the Lord said to her,
"Now you have conceived and shall bear a son,
you shall call him Ish'mael,
for the Lord has given heed to your affliction.""
All three religions are very close, indeed Christianity's Old Testament is the Jewish Talmud, and many parts of Islam draw off of the Bible and the Torah. Case in point, all three religions consider Jerusalem to be an extremely holy city, in Islam it is (I think) the third most holy city; where Mohammed journeyed to the heavens and back. Obviously it is the most important city for the other two, but you get my point.
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It's like all the subdivisions of Christianity. (Christianity here is defined as any thing involving that big clusterfuck of 'Jesus is #1!' sort of things. [Or #2, after God.]) It's all the same bloody thing, and everyone wants to prove how they're more right than someone else who's equally right.
Edit: 'Identical cousins played by Patti Duke.' - To sum up the major political parties in the US.
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