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So I’m playing Battlefront II. (Yeah! There’s some damn evil in Battlefront!!)

Anyway… So I’m playing Battlefront II. And these two guys come out of no where: Darth Vader and Anikan Skywalker. Darth Vader uses his Force Choke on me and has me hangin in the air. My feet are flappin like fish lookin for water. Then that punk Anikan comes over and twirls around a few times before slicing me up like lunch meat. Evil I tell you! EVIL!

A bittersweet ending to the entire Sony rootkit fiasco comes with a settlement in a class action lawsuit. Plaintiffs are given the option of: (i) $US7.50 plus one free album download or (ii) three free album downloads (Sony will select at least 200 eligible titles).

Does that mean that according to the studio the actual value of a single album is $3.25? Or is $7.50 a value of some other calculation of damages incurred and the free album download is just a cherry on top of that value?

Last week President Bush altered the line of succession over at the Pentagon. His action shuffled civilian positions higher than those of military positions.

I’ve written before about Rumsfeld’s War but this action right here is a beautiful illustration of the overall concept. After Vietnam there was a huge undertaking by the military (driven by Collin Powell!) to eliminate civilian control over military tasks. See… The military felt screwed by Washington in Vietnam because folks like McNamara were calling the shots of what occurred on the ground over 3,000 miles away from the battlefield. The military wanted to insure proper military officials were calling the shots and made vast overhauls to insure that was the case.

Part of Rumsfeld’s tactic as Secretary of Defense has always been to direct military operations from an Executive level. This was noticed even during his first stint as SoD for the Ford Administration. He took it to new levels by essentially shutting down military generals’ opinions leading up to the Iraq 2003 invasion. (They wanted more troops Donny!!) Now we hear the President is changing the order of succession to put Rummy’s civilian officials ahead of military officials? Yup… Rummy’s War.

This sounds pretty cool! A music store in Charleston is offering iPods for a large number of CDs traded in. 175 CDs will get you a 60Gb iPod video pod. There are requirements obviously, but this still sounds like a pretty sweet program.

Can’t make this shit up…

Fantastic.

Well, at least the “on foreign citizens” part of their statement was true in some way…

Rice authorized National Security Agency to spy on UN Security Council in run-up to war, former officials say

Now the rest of the world can chime in on this matter with legitimacy.

From C&L comes this piece off FOX News that asks if the revelations by the NY Times treason??

So many failing pieces of logic I can’t even sum it up here. My blood pressure is going through the roof from anger over this whole matter.

Now informing the public who elected you into office of shady shit you’re doing is a crime???

Let me make this easier for any “monitoring” software:

TAG: President Bush is a ninny who wants to take away my patriotic right to criticize his lousy policies in an unjust war against nothing.

Kurds in Iraqi army proclaim loyalty to militia

That makes the Dec 15th elections irrelevant. What good has come of your purple revolution now, President Bush?

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I finally got my copy yesterday and got to listen last night. This is not for the weak, insult fearing, fucking leather slaves of Karl Rove’s country. This CD is all about tearing new assholes into the ear drums of every listener. From “liberals” being re-defined as the rapers of Republicans all across the country to John Edwards shoving Haliburton (yeah, all of it!) right up Dick Cheney’s asshole this CD is shines brightly on The Rude Pundit’s ability to insult anything that moves… and Barbara Bush, too.