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2 things before you read this review:
1) I (unfortunately) watched the series twice, both in airing and chronological order, so I can compare them.
2) This is not a praise Haruhi review, but rather a review from someone who truly dislikes and despises the show. I tried to include all reasons behind this; so even if you are a Haruhi fanatic, please try to understand why I rated it so low.
Now onto the review.
MAL is the place where I usually decide the new anime series I want to watch. Unfortunately, this sometimes proves to be disastrous - like the case of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Reading the synopsis, seeing the nice graphics and all the hype around it, I really expected something great, intelligent and unusual. Instead, I got a really big disappointment - manifested by a boredom and annoyance overdose.
From what I've seen, there are usually two approaches of the show that Haruhi fans support. First is the parody one - TMoHS is supposed to be a light comedy not meant to be taken seriously, destined purely for laughter. Second states that TMoHS is a deep, subtle and intelligent show that has a lot of hidden meanings. I honestly disagree with both. TMoHS is nothing more than a series that delivers to fans what fans want - exaggerated, cliche characters, lots of fanservice, predictability and little to none plot and character development.
You can't talk about the story without mentioning the really unusual way in which the episodes are aired - and that is, not chronological. I admit, this is an extremely intelligent, even brilliant idea - to hide the fact that the plot of TMoHS is basically zero. Nopes. Nothing ever happens; it's just a bunch of high school and spare time events that some teenagers go through randomly thrown in. That's why, it really doesn't matter in which order you watch the show, since you won't miss anything.
Now, the whole 'God is amongst us' concept could have been really interestingly developed - if it wasn't for the characters.
In my opinion, characters truly represent the poorest aspect of the show. Leaving aside the fact that there is no development in their personalities at all, they are so poorly made, that it's almost as if they were created to be mocked at. In an elegant way, you could say that they are one-dimensional sketches or exaggerated caricatures. In a non sophisticated, yet same true way, you could just call them crappy. Either way, they cut off all the enjoyment the story could have brought. Because they are so simplistic, the viewer is basically able to predict anything that's about to happen in the following 5 minutes with an accuracy of 95% - unless he's an idiot.
So let's move onto each one of them.
Haruhi is what every teenage girl would want to be - she's beautiful, she's smart, she's talented and athletic. She could be called either a Mary Sue character or a tsundere - I don't care. Because of all her qualities, her life was probably pretty easy, thus leading her to believe she's special. However, she doesn't want to be special only for herself - she wants the world to know how great of a person she is. So far, so good. Then why is she so unlikeable? Well, Haruhi's way of proving she's something else is definitely WRONG.
If there was one adjective I had to pick to describe Haruhi, then I'd probably choose aggressive. Haruhi is aggressive in everything. Her speech is aggressive, her ideas are aggressive, her way of waving her hands is aggressive, but most important of all - her relationships towards other people is aggressive. She has no value of human morals whatsoever, considering everybody her pawns. Therefore, Haruhi thinks she is allowed to do everything just because she's able to. I honestly waited throughout the whole series for someone to slap her, disagree with her or at least spark the tiniest bit sense of reality into her. Unfortunately, there was no positive development at all. Haruhi started out as a perfect, bossy bitch and ended up as an even more bitchy one, receiving several ego boosts as the series advanced due to her talented, almighty nature.
Yuki could as very well be replaced by a broken alarm clock that rings when it shouldn't or by an old, rusted door and there would hardly be any differences. 90% of Yuki's actions are static - she's just, well, there, reading a book. (The climax of Yuki's passiveness is reached during episode 14, when the viewer is shown 5 minutes in which basically all she does is change the page while voices full of references echo on the school corridor. That's 5 freaking minutes of NOTHING. Yet I, as a viewer, should find this utterly amusing.) The rest 10% of Yuki's actions make absolutely no sense. She's just programming computers or fighting cute aliens while being equally cute, silent and moe.
Mikuru's only purpose in this show is to bring fanservice. Lots and lots, if possible. Mikuru has this high-pitched, squeaky scream and this shy personality which enables her to make all fanboys fall for her. She's like a sickening cute, fluffy hamster that starts squealing every time she's touched (and she sure gets touched a lot, mind you.) Every once in a while, she might give you the unpleasant surprise that she's not actually a commercial item and she can exit her tormented animal state too and be human - by speaking.
I haven't read the original novels so I can't tell for sure what role Koizumi plays in them - but to me, it seems as the creator of TMoHS had, at some point, reached a pinch. He had to create a new character. Therefore, his line of reasoning was probably something like this: "Hey, I already have 3 extremely moe and likable female characters. I should make a guy too, so the female audience would be pleased. Yeah, yeah, I should make a guy - as elegant and charming as possible." Thus Koizumi was born.
Basically, unless you're a crazy fangirl or something similar, you'd barely be able to notice Koizumi - I, for once, kept forgetting his name all the time. To be honest, the only time I acknowledged his existence was when he kept staring at Kyon's hair in the middle of a mole fluttering in the ocean breeze. I thought it was the most irrelevant and repulsing thing TMoHS had brought so far.
Koizumi serves as the voice through which the strange events occurring around Haruhi are explained. Translation: his speeches are long, boring and put you to sleep. When he talks, he talks. When he doesn't talk, he still talks.
Kyon is a sword with two edges. On one hand, he's really sarcastic, being quite innovative to the ordinary guy genre - thus proving to be the only aspect that might seem slightly interesting during the series. On the other one, he's extremely unlikable due to the fact that he doesn't take any action at all - unless forced by Haruhi. Kyon was the viewer's last hope of Haruhi redemption - yet he fails miserably, by making her even worse than how she actually started off.
Art and Sound
Art and sound are probably the only positive aspects of the show. TMoHS manages to create a pretty good atmosphere - the movements are flowing easily, the colors are bright and clean, the background music fits in - even though it doesn't stand out as more than ordinary. The OP and ED are either really addictive or annoying to the core - I'm more inclined to the latter. Voices are OK, the actors managing to catch each character's personality - which only adds up to how you, as a viewer, perceive them. Overall, no major problem.
Zero. Zero enjoyment. I can't quite comprehend how a normal, rational person can watch a show where the characters are horrible and the story is predictable - and, at the same time, enjoy it. Haruhi is a mediocre anime for the masses. It was meant to be liked by all those who want to stand out but have no means of doing so. I honestly expect much more from my anime when I watch it. I want to be hooked or at least slightly entertained. Leave aside the fact that I constantly kept staring elsewhere asking myself 'when will this crap be over?'; I couldn't even grin ONCE throughout the series. That's how uninteresting it was.
When rating, I usually consider two aspects. One is enjoyment; the other is the effort that I feel the creators put into the certain anime. Animation-wise, KyoAni really overdid itself. Plot-wise, it was a total wreck.
Therefore, I really cannot rate TMoHS more than 4 out of 10.
Thanks for the review, I hate this anime so much. And this is from someone who loves weird, slow anime like Lain and has watched it 4 times - this anime just has nothing substantial at all.
If anyone is interested (lol yea right) this is what I said about the character Haruhi: I watched it with an open mind & at first I was really enjoying it (minus 50% of the time Mikuru was on screen) because it was cute & Kyon is absolutely hilarious. But then I honestly just got bored, & really irritated. In my opinion, from what I have seen, Haruhi herself is kind of rotten. She's so selfish, she literally does not care for anyone else, except maybe Kyon (& maybe the others too) but she doesn't show it at all, she treats them all like crap. I don't even know if she would consider them friends, because they're just like decorations half the time & when they're not their to fill space, she bosses them around, it just pisses me off. Her attitude & personality sucks, to me at least. Mikuru is my least favorite character but for her to treat her the way she does is horrible. I don't find that funny whatsoever. She has no concerns about her feelings or anyone elses as long as she gets what she wants. Everyone is just her play thing, I can't stand it. I kept watching for Kyon's commentary & for the hope that her character would at least SOMEWHAT develop & mature, but I think I have to at least stall it now.
Thank you, thank you so much for posting this. I'm so bad with words but you have said everything I was thinking. I honestly do not understand why this anime is so popular, it is so predictable & boring. It's nothing we haven't seen before, with the stupid stereotypical character types, which I cannot stress enough, are so. freaking. boring. I like my characters to have real personalities. It feels like they just looked up definitions of "silent girl", "rude aggressive b*tch with no concern for anyone elses feelings" (am I allowed to swear here?), & don't forget "girl who serves literally no purpose other than boobs with an irritating voice, who is also a clutz, because they always have to be clutzy" & created characters based on that. Not only is that boring, but it is so so overdone. It was such a dissapointment. I have even heard people go as far as calling it the greatest anime of all time, & now after seeing the majority of the episodes, I am just confused. I wonder did they really watch it...? Kyon is the only redeeming thing for the show, in my opinion. His sarcasm is great, though I wish he would oppose Haruhi instead of always giving in. I wish they all would really. Instead of just letting her always have her way I truly wish one of them would have just smacked her for being such a crappy person.
You have some good points I think the only thing that really saved the dub is Cripisin Freeman playing Kyon which is only kept my attention. but I have seemed sub couldn't watch it more than five minutes. Oh have you seen season two you should and let me on how you feel about the infinte eight number. all it is eye candy they thought if we make the moe pretty enough other than big heads and waving arms they'll love it not if you have half a brain. also if you have a science background they didn't even get the science of how the espers in the black spaces works right which annoyed me. also if you don't have a science background then your going to be very confused.
I would though like to see a review from of season 2.
I completely agree with your review. You have an annoying bitch who fakes sexual harassment pictures of to get a computer, does anything she wants and everybody just bows down to her when they should be beating the shit out of her (I know I wanted to) , and she isn't even likeable while she does it. Anime fans today are truly pathetic if annoying characters are deemed 'funny' if they are constantly shouting and taking whatever they want, 'cute' if they are soulless, animated sex dolls with giant breasts, and 'cool' if they sit in a corner and refuse to talk to anybody. Worst of all, possibly even worse than a good anime getting a bad rap, I think, is a piece of shit like this being worshipped by weaboos. It makes me want to vomit, preferrably all over those weaboos.
In short, I'm glad I'm not the only one who despises this series.


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Under Scott Walker's reign in Wisconsin, multinational corporations are given undue influence over public policy. Nowhere is this more evident than in public education. Some of the largest corporations in the world -- GE, Caterpillar, Koch Industries -- have privileged seats at Walker's policy table, but they don't necessarily show up themselves. Instead, they activate a whole network of local actors to do their bidding.
In his seminal work, Propaganda (1928), the "Father of Public Relations" Edward Louis Bernays wrote:
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.
On Thursday morning, dozens of people you've probably never heard of gathered at Waukesha County Technical College to work on one piece of a dense, multi-layered strategy to manipulate the organized habits and opinions of Wisconsin school kids, parents and teachers.
This "invisible government" of opinion leaders consists of a group of manufacturers, mainly from southeastern Wisconsin, led by Tim Sullivan, former CEO of mining equipment manufacturer Bucyrus International, and allies from the public relations, lobbying and philanthropic industries. Sullivan recently released a report entitled, "The Road Ahead: Restoring Wisconsin's Workforce Development" in which he recommends major changes to state k-12 and higher education systems.
A parallel effort has been led by Jim Wood of the PR firm Wood Communications, and Bill McCoshen, lobbyist and former Wisconsin Commerce Department secretary under Tommy Thompson with their pro-business group Competitive Wisconsin. Though Competitive Wisconsin describes itself as a nonpartisan policy group, the interests they serve are easily discovered by a perusal of their policy papers. In their document BE BOLD: The Role of Capital in the Building and Maintaining of Wisconsin's Entrepreneurial Economy, they spelled it out:
"The public and private sectors must also focus now on encouraging and enabling current employers who have expansion and growth potential to maximize that potential as quickly as possible. Strong exporting cluster industries, such as defense manufacturing, medical devices, and minerals, would fall into this category."
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The Be Bold campaign resulted in the elimination of the Wisconsin Department of Commerce and the creation of the semi-private Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) by Governor Scott Walker in January, 2011.
Competitive Wisconsin organized the Thursday morning gathering to bring together leaders in government and manufacturing businesses to discuss recommendations from their latest document, "Be Bold 2: Growing Wisconsin's Talent Pool." A linchpin to this strategy is orienting the k-12 public education system toward the needs of manufacturing businesses.
Even though the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development's own employment projections don't put any manufacturing-related jobs in the top 15 fastest growing occupations in the state, an enormous amount of political attention and public resources are being poured into promoting the sector.
According to event co-host Suzanne Kelley, president of the Waukesha County Business Alliance, an important tactic in this strategy is to "create a positive image for manufacturing, and make it a career of choice for young people." Her organization already sponsors a program called "Schools 2 Skills," a day-long manufacturing program for students and teachers, and supports the National Association of Manufacturer's "Dream It. Do It" campaign "designed to re-brand the manufacturing industry as a great place to work and specifically targets young people."
In her remarks given in a building less than a mile away from the global headquarters of GE Health Care Technologies, Kelley, who also serves on the state legislature's Special Committee on Improving Educational Opportunities in High School, said, "Ensuring a pipeline of qualified workers is critical for economic development in our community."
Tim Sullivan did not attend the meeting in person, but sent his awkward, two-minute message to the group via YouTube. In it, he calls for a return to "the American dream of 25 years ago of having a good-paying job." In order to do that, Sullivan says, "We have to correct our educational system to make sure we're creating a pipeline to workforce development."
Both "The Road Ahead" and "Be Bold 2" recommend the dissolution of existing workforce development councils and committees and the formation of a single "Talent Council" and the establishment of a $100 million "Talent Development Fund" to go along with it. While Sullivan thinks the Talent Council should reside in the Department of Workforce Development, Wood and McCoshen think it would fit better in the semi-private WEDC, for typically business-friendly reasons.
"The reason why we put it at WEDC is because they are the most flexible agency in the state today," said McCoshen of the agency that he had a hand in creating. "If you went with an existing state agency bound by all the rules and regulations you might have something in place six months from now, whereas this could be done with an Executive Order signed by the Governor immediately if it was in WEDC." He added, "This also automatically forces an alignment of DWD with the state's economic development plan."
Lee Swindall, vice president of Business and Industry Development of WEDC, spoke plainly about the state's promotion of manufacturing using the typically high-handed methods of the Walker regime. "WEDC does not want to see a retail-level redistribution of those funds to local, highly differentiated workforce development initiatives," he said. "The funds need to align with key industry priorities in Wisconsin. Not every profession should be equally underwritten by those funds."
Reggie Newson, DWD Secretary said, "We agree with WEDC that there should be coordination between our agencies." He added, "A lot of other states have done this -- Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma. They have pulled in k-12 and public college systems to collaborate. But we have to put job creators in the driver's seat. Then other entities will be in place to assist the employers of Wisconsin."
The suggestion for Wisconsin to follow the educational and economic development models of those four states is alarming, to say the least.
Going further by directly linking the needs of business with larger public education reform goals, Jim Wood said, "There is a tectonic shift going on in k-12 education. It is important that Wisconsin is part of the Common Core." Referring obliquely to a new law passed earlier this year allowing local school boards to count industry-recognized certifications toward high school graduation requirements, Wood added, "It is important that this becomes project-based and achievement-based education. As part of that, kids will be experiencing the real world earlier and earlier."
Scott Jansen, former vice president for public policy strategy at AT&T, a member of the Wisconsin Technology Council, executive director of Talent Dividend, a project of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, and chairman of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Tech High School Commission said, "I want to talk about a bottom-up approach -- reaching down into the k-12 education pipeline to offer employers skilled workers."
Jansen just received a $30,000 grant from DWD to promote his "My Life! My Plan!" project in Milwaukee schools. "We're trying to track the freshman class into career pathways." Discussing the difficulties in getting kids on board with the program Jensen said, "We have a long ways to go in terms of aligning parents, students, teachers, to what workforce needs are in the future."
The morning ended with an appearance by Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, who apparently understands her role as a public servant to develop and sell the people and resources of the state for the benefit of corporations and their investors. "We are raising up the children of today to be the workforce of tomorrow," said the mother of two. "As I go out there and sell our economic development climate in Wisconsin, I want to say that we have the best workforce in the entire country."
She went on, "We need to reform government to have the stability, certainty and predictability so that employers will be willing to take money out of the bank and invest it in WI. I'm here to ask you 3 things:
1) We need to know what tools the private sector needs and what inhibits job growth.
2) We need to change the mindset of parents and students about what success looks like.
3) We need everyone's buy-in. We hear from job creators that there are problems out there and they need to be solved. We need full engagement and to have job creators give us suggestions. It's all hands on deck, all ideas counted. Consider the Lt. Governor's office an open door for your ideas. We react with great customer service to job creators and those who train people who are employed in the state."
Her office reacts with a different kind of customer service to citizens who bring to their attention problems with plutocratic government that need to be solved. But that's another story.
Sullivan, Wood and McCoshen hope that their final recommendations will be ready for lawmakers to act upon when the Republican-dominated legislature returns to session sometime in January.
Rebecca Kemble reports for The Progressive magazine and website. She also participates when she can in the Solidarity Sing Along.
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Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer. When they want you to buy something they will call you. When they want you to die for profit they will let you know. So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands. Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed. Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold. Call that profit. Prophesy such returns. Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years. Listen to carrion—put your ear close, and hear the faint chattering of the songs that are to come. Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. So long as women do not go cheap for power, please women more than men. Ask yourself: Will this satisfy a woman satisfied to bear a child? Will this disturb the sleep of a woman near to giving birth? Go with your love to the fields. Lie easy in the shade. Rest your head in her lap. Swear allegiance to what is nighest your thoughts. As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
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Slow waves are generated by the middle frontal lobe, and as this region deteriorates with age, the elderly tend to lose the ability to experience long REM sleep
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Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2009, 89(5), 459-465. Web of Science® Times Cited: 16Simon Farnebo, Lars-Erik Karlander, Ingrid Steinwall, Florence Sjögren and Folke Sjöberg Continuous assessment of concentrations of cytokines in experimental injuries of the extremity International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, 2009, 2(4), 354-362. Web of Science® Times Cited: 7Pekke Mellergård, Oscar Åneman, Florence Sjögren, P. Pettersson and Jan Hillman Changes in Extracellular Concentrations of Some Cytokines, Chemokines, and Neurotrophic Factors After Insertion of Intracerebral Microdialysis Catheters in Neurosurgical Patients Neurosurgery, 2008, 62(1), 151-157. Web of Science® Times Cited: 31Jan Hillman, Peter Milos, Yu Zhengquan, Florence Sjögren, Chris Anderson and Pekka Mellergård Intracerebral microdialysis in neurosurgical intensive care patients utilising catheters with different molecular cut-off (20 and 100 kD) Acta Neurochirurgica, 2006, 148(3), 319-324. 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Quarter Life %$#!-it List
By Jayce Scott · September 15, 2010
Get it? Bucket list?
Well, since even list making has become so blogger defined with the
bucket, I Hate, Top Ten, WTFs and Fails…I thought to make up my own
This is not what I wanted to do before I "kicked the bucket" or moved on
from this quarter life list. Just a 7-Day thing. In order to work out of
my weekly quarter life crisis I decided on a fudge-it list. I might not
achieve it all, but it is really about the journey…right?
This week I will…
Get a washboard stomach? Again it is all about the try.
Pitch an idea to Bravo television where I open a restaurant that only
sells grilled cheese.
Get a Tosh.O Web Redemption.
Research, explore, discover and befriend Bigfoot. Shoot him, have him
stuffed, get front page in the National Enquirer and National
Geographic…and then hit the state fair circuit charging two bit's a gander
to view the 8th wonder of the world!
Find peace with my ex's credit score and identity theft.
Eat and exercise right. See my first list item.
Perfect the art of the cinnamon roll. Probably not going to help me on
number one either.
Crash a college party or tail-gater and be "that" guy at the keg. (I
graduated like a million years ago)
Do my Halloween shopping early. I want to be that crazy guy on the block
that always has the coolest haunted house in his garage. Course that will
probably land me on some law enforcement list.
Come to peace with a funny little man I like to call "me"
That's it…all doable…all attainable…all mine. No matter the outcome, I am
able to say $%#-it! I tried!
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Moral relativism attracts and repels. What is defensible in it and what is to be rejected? Do we as human beings have no shared standards by which we can understand one another? Can we abstain from judging one another's practices? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, virtue and vice, harm and welfare, dignity and humiliation, or is there some underlying commonality that trumps it all?
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This blog owner has set up a "flash mob" of sorts to encourage a young man who is trying to help his Dad. She set up a Facebook Event Page about it:
She will be handing him a check for almost $500 as well as hopefully a few interview opportunities with local companies during the event.
Quoting sugarandstones:It may break his heart.. sweet won't pay the bills. Maybe speak with a few companies that can give him work.
Please keep us updated on this!!
Any updates on this?
According to the site on the link, they had to reschedule to tomorrow because of weather.
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47's greatest hits – Top 5 levels in the Hitman series
Meat King's Party (Contracts)
A BDSM party…at a meat packing plant. The atmosphere is simply perfect, with tons of dark, twisted and gruesome imagery, from the gimps to the target's psychotic serial killer brother who sings to himself in front of the chopped up and mutilated corpse of the girl 47 was supposed to rescue, all complimented by the dim lighting and blood trails. Sending Malcolm "Jabba The Hutt" Sturrock to meet his maker is deeply satisfying after all of this.
St Petersburg Stakeout (Silent Assassin)
This mission has one of the most intense and iconic moments in the whole franchise – the assassination of an unidentified Russian general at a meeting . Not knowing which one to shoot and having to guess from the description 47 gets from his handler as he's looking on through a sniper scope is an awesome touch and feels very Cold War-like. The time limit adds a good deal of tension, even if it is pretty much cosmetic. This is what being a professional assassin should feel like.
Hunter and Hunted (Absolution)
Hunter and Hunted was one of the best levels of Hitman: Absolution. The atmosphere of Chicago's Chinatown felt amazing with so much life crammed into it. The amount of choices for completing the objectives also helped it stand out as one of the highlights of the game.
New Life (Blood Money)
It's just amazing how many options IO were able to give the players with such a small map, from using the tree house to take the target out from afar to disguising yourself as the caterer and sneaking in a remote controlled mine. Plenty of little details to take advantage of, including the FBI agent getting personal with the target's daughter's undies and the wife's promiscuity. The suburban setting is nice breath of fresh air.
Beldingford Manor (Contracts)
Another really twisted concept for a Hitman mission – a deranged English lord kidnaps an Oxford track champion to use him as a target in his favorite hobby – hunting humans for sport and it's up to 47 to make things right. Suffocating Lord Beldingford with a pillow is deeply satisfying, there are plenty of hidden passageways to explore. Jesper Kyd's awesome soundtrack for this particular level helps the atmosphere tremendously.
Honorable Mention: Requiem (Blood Money)
Requiem isn't really a mission, but it's still a pretty epic and climatic finale. Getting up and shooting everyone at your own funeral as the credits roll may not be very Hitman-like, but it's hard to walk away without feeling satisfied with the ending and Hitman: Blood Money in general.


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When you think of Halloween, three things come to mind: candy, Halloween the movie, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It's been 35 years since the Transylvanian musical debuted in theaters with Barry Bostwick, Susan Sarandon and Tim Curry as the leads. In honor of the anniversary the original stars as well as a few others including Jack Nicholson, Evan Rachel Wood, Julian MacMahon, Lea Michelle, and Matthew Morrison decided to participate in a Los Angeles fundraiser inspired by the film to raise money for a good cause.
Nicholson shared narration duties for The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Danny DeVito, while Michele and Morrison played the roles of Janet and Brad. In a crazy turn MacMahon was dressed from head to toe as the transsexual Dr. Frank-n-furter and "Lost" alum Jorge Garcia starred as the motorcycle riding Eddie, who was previously played by Meat Loaf in the original.
Wood and Lucas Gabreel from High School Musical were stand outs as Magenta and Riff Raff, they did an amazing job. Even better than the actor's from "Glee!" One of the most hilarious bits came from George Lopez as he appeared pantless in the role of Dr. Scott. At the end of it all Bostwick and Curry came out to a thunderous applause accompanied by an encore performance of "The Time Warp."
Why haven't they released the video of this performance yet? It sounds like a must see!
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Nanami experiments a little with her divine powers while she struggles to define exactly how she feels about Tomoe. And Kurama, being the yokai who has more experience with humans, offers some words of advice to Tomoe.
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I absolutely understand what you'e saying, and I'd like Paizo to make archetypes so that they're not "invasive" to other classes' fluff.
That said, even though you can play a huge number of "rogue types", you should have always in mind that the character is, above all, a rogue. So if he's a charmer, he's kissing and, at the same time, reaching for the lady's purse. If he's a scout, he may catch the enemies' sleeping and steal their stuff, poison their food or plant a trap on their camp. Per say, whichever "rogue" you're playing, he should be doing things a rogue would do, not a ranger or a bard. I see a bard singing a "sleep" song to steal from the lady, but not lifting her stuff :)
I dunno, thinking like that I feel like the character is unique and memorable!
I don't know, maybe it's just me, but i'd love to play a rogue, just for the fluff around it and the numerous characters I can come up with. People shouldn't mind having their character outdamaged by others, simply because this is no wargame.
You can play the sneaky pickpocket, the smooth-talker, the scout, a charlatan, the ladies man, a coward who avoids direct combat and only kills weak enemies, etc. For me, that's what counts. Okay, other classes can do the same, but so what? What's really important is how memorable that guy will be!
That's me, though.
Guys, sorry if this' a stupid question, but I searched to exaustion here and couldn't find it.
The wording in mirror image says that, if the attack is a hit, one should "roll randomly" to determine whether he hit the target or a figment. But what the hell do they mean about "roll randomly"? Like, if I have 8 images there is a chance of 1 in 9 that the attacker will hit? I just cant find the explanation to it anywhere, neither the ruling for "random rolls" on the Core Rulebook!
Thanks a lot!!
I just can't seem to know what to make out of this room!
The description is as goes:
A17. Prison (EL 7)
The map won't help much, and I can't imagine what the description says. I mean, where the hell is the web funnel anyway? Where is the spider? How could anyone "fall into the web"?? Jumping from the catwalk?
And what about the cages? They're underneath the platform?
English in not my native language, but I've done fine till now. This description is really, really weird!
Ok, here's my question:
Let's take a rogue for example. At level 7 a Rogue's BAB is +5. So if he has the TWF feat and is using a light weapon on his off-hand, he can make two attacks (full round action), at +3/+3, right?
At level 8 his BAB is +6/+1. This's where my question lands. He'll be able to make full-round attacks at +4/+4/-1/-1? Or would it be +4/+4/+1?
Thanks in advance, and sorry of this is stupid :D
So, when giving my players magic items, how will I know if that particular item is too strong or too weak to him other than the description?
I can't find any guidelines about that. Also, I can't figure out which magic items are minor ou major.
Thanks a lot for responding, the CL while creating an item is completely clear to me now!
Hey y'all!
Something's been bugging me for a while now, and my players have been more and more interested in crafting magic toys that kill stuff, so I have to ask.
The Core books says, regarding magic items caster level:
Caster Level (CL): The next item in a notational entry gives the caster level of the item, indicating its relative power. The caster level determines the item's saving throw bonus, as well as range or other level-dependent aspects of the powers of the item (if variable). It also determines the level that must be contended with should the item come under the effect of a dispel magic spell or similar situation.
Does this mean that a CL 10 Magic item has an appropriate power to a Lv. 10 Character? I just can't get that!
Also, when a character creates a magic item, how do I determine it's CL?
Thanks in advance!
Congrats man, must've been a dreamy thing (yeah, I'm a guy...).
On a unrelated note, as long as we're saying thanks, I'd like to thank Paizo for listening to their customers and beng considerate when releasing their products, providing us with high quality stuff for reasonable prices.
Thanks a lot guys, you rule.
So he's in Sandpoint, and wants to set up a shop there and sell weapons between adventures. I'm really at loss on how to this, though I got some ideas. I want to know if you guys got any experience at that.
-How much would a small house cost to set up his shop?
Thanks a lot in advace ^_^
Hey guys!
I've been on the mood to acquire a small projector to enchance the gameplay experience, but budget's a little tight right now. I've seen a couple "mini projectors" on e-bay, and some of them can make a image up to 6 foot, and I think that's more than enough.
But I am at loss which one to pick, and there are some really juicy prices on them.
I also thought about getting the mini one because it'd be easier to hang somewhere.
Anyone got experience on that field that could give me some tips?
Thanks a lot!
I had a player with the same problem, but it got fixed with a suggestion I gave him.
You need to BELIVE in your roll, you need to put good energy and thoughts into your roll in order to suceed. If you roll thinking you'll roll badly anyway you just won't make it!
It's mostly hokum, really, but it does work most of the time. The guy is happy rolling right now...
...rolling his dice, just to be clear.
Well, we ended the first part and I used a lot of the comments written in this topic, so thank you very much for all the help and support. This' a great community really, something I couldn' find in the 4e boards (though some people are really nice there too!).
Well, they negotiated with Orik and he followed them until they met with Nualia. The he "unturned" his coat and attacked them from the back, which was awesome. One player actually said "Oh sh**, you mother*****...", which means he was actually immersed in the game.
The buffed Nualia gave the paladin a hard time, with her high attack bonuses. I did shatter his longsword, but they did very well. Those Yeth Hounds are really mean, I gave her just one, since Orik was there (at 9 hit points, but still, that Bastard Sword of his sure hurts a ranger or a rogue).
Some doubts arised: does channel energy for healing allies heals the cleric too?
After Nualia came Malfeshnekor, which was great too. I didn't really know how to handle invisibility, I just couldn't find the rules! In there a penalty for attacking? I know the invisible attacker gets +2 to hit, but what about the attackers?
Anyway, by the time they killed Malfeshnekor they were in pretty bad shape and out of healing itens or spells. So the giant hermit crab was a funny ("Guys...that helmet is looking at me...") and tense surprise (ranger got knocked out...it's an NPC anyway.)
In the end we had a lot of fun, thanks to your suggestions, thank you very much!
I need to work on my "administration" skills. There's a lot to keep track of, but with time Iknow I'll get used to it. For instanc, I forgot Mafeshnekor's DR, but it was good somehow, cause it's a really powerful monster, so I think the party could have died in the end.
I'm looking foward to part two!!
Just out of curiosity: do you guys give the PCs chance to rest in dungeons like this? Or run awar, buy stuff and come back?
I did let them rest between the base and the 1st level, but I'm not sure I should have.
I would've thrown some goblins at them (or even yeth hounds) but they were kinda in a bad shape.
Yeah, I've no intention to kill 'em, I just want them to feel pressured! There is still Nualia, Malfeshnekor and the giant hermit crab for them to handle, so they can't be in really bad shape when they come.
Oh, about the same happened with Tentamort, but it WAS kinda weak. He did sting the Rogue though, just after he was bit by a goblin dog. XD The others laughed pretty hard at him.
Thanks a lot for replying you all!
I do not intend to switch systems or give up GMing, I think it's a great role to play on the table and I love PF!
Here's some data on it:
Lyrie is found in a rather small room, and I put her in the farthest corner so that the Paladin wouldn't get to her so easily.
Oh yeah, the group is: paladin, rogue, cleric and ranger, all level 3.
The Rogue sold that returning dagger they get early in the AP, and bought the paladin a full plate, so his AC is really high. Lyrie was my chance to scare him a lil' bit, cause Ripnugget just couldn't hit him (fricking' smite evil...). I did manage to hurt the party badly in this fight, and as they were in real bad shape (dumb ranger fell on the bridge...)
Anyway, although I was able to slow down the paladin, the rogue won the initiative and rushed to her, sneak attacking her for a buttload of damage. From that it went downhill. The paladin threw a chair at the girl! The corner'd her and beat her to a pulp. I tried to shatter the paladin's sword, but he's got pretty high defenses!
Also, I just forgot about her wand -_-...
Now Orik did a great job hurting the paladin (they're negotiating with him right now), and although Ripnugget encounter gave them a pretty hard time, they have pretty much beaten every encounter without much damage.
I know I need to handle cover/concealment and lighting better, but I belive Lyrie's room was lit.
Anyway, that's how they kicked her samosas.
EDIT: Oh yeah, I *AM* using Kyle Olson's combat manager! It's awesome!
***MAY contain Rise of the Runelords SPOILERS***
Well, yeah I do fail as a GM.
I just switched from 4th Ed. to PF (and I THANK GOD for that), and we decided to start with Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path.
We just got to Thistletop's 1st level, and they battled Lyrie Akenja. I mean, clobbered her. I did as the instructions said, at the beggining of the battle she cast on herself mage armor and mirror image. But somehow I just couldn't handle the thing well (the statblock has plenty of stuff to acknoledge and use...).
My luck is that my players are as ignorant of the game as myself, so when they win easily, they just feel more powerful and, well, happy. But I'd like to give them the right challenge, make them feel pressured, cause this will get old soon.
Is there any guide around about GM preparation, some tips, etc? We're having fun, and still getting the grasp of the rules, but I really want to give them a good time by feeling the pressure of it.
Also, I read that as the levels rise up, it becomes even more difficult for the GM to administrate things! I'm panicking already!
Thanks a lot in advance!
I apologize in advance if I seem to stress my point too strongly.
It's just that as much as I love US's cultural production (music, movies, RPG, games ,etc), as a brazillian I just can't swallow this false moralism when it comes to sex.
Sex is just out there: magazines, TV, the internet, at the beach, on the street. And still the USA insists on treating it as something "unnatural". Oh, c'mon. Seeing a sorcerer dressed like it is on the book won't turn your kids into perverts. Not just that, they'll have sex one day, right?
It's just better to raise them presenting it as something natural but also giving all the right information. As much as you hide the hideous and scandalous Pathfinder artwork from them, at school they might just play doctor with their friends, and you'll probably never even know it!
11 out of 10 pornography websites are from the USA. So why pretend that sex is this God forbidden thing, that no child should be aware of? I'm not telling you to have sex in front of them, but it is not the artwork of a fantasy book that'll break your kids.
Treating sex as a huge taboo will only make them more curious about what it is, and maybe even traumatize them later on.
Just control the information so that they take each information step by step, as they age, but never treat is as forbidden.
Paizo, the artwork of the books are GREAT, and there is absolutely no reason to soften it. It is not inappropriate for children at all.
Okay, I did search some, I read a lot and I still have difficulties here.
I just can't understand the process of creating a magic item. My doubts are concentrated specially in the effects.
Take for example the Rapier of Puncturing.
I see you need the feat and the spell harm.
First: the price. +2 weapon bonus and the wounding property would be: (2²x2000)+ (6²x1000) = 8000+36000= 44000 and not the 50k the book says.
One other thing: it says the effect can happen up to 3 times per day. Where did this limitation come from? It's just made up?
I'm really sorry if this has been asked over and over, but I just can't semm to process the whole information!
Thanks in advance!
Hi y'all!
I've been browsing numerous websites on minimizing the prep time to run PF, cause I just switched to it and got terrified to the notion that it takes a lot to DM at higher levels. I know I can use the awesome APs Paizo puts out, but I do enjoy creating my own adventures, so I'm searching for reference.
I came across a blog in which the author gives some pretty interesting guidelines to create fast NPCs, but I'm not really sure if using that method will give me challenging NPCs to higher levels.
The blog is: http://rollforinitiative.blogspot.com/2010/10/pathfinder-preparationits-not -that.html
I'm not criticizing the author, none of that. Actually, for what I know that'll save me a lot of time, and I know that my lawier's life won't allow me to spend much more into my games. All I want is some insight into it, so that I can hear more opinions about it!
Hm, a lot of things made me switch to PF. I was a big enthusiast of 4e, and I got to play it a lot. My mind changed when I actually read PF. Then 4e stopped making sense to me.
I fail to understand how EVERY SINGLE ATTRIBUTE can influence my ATTACK rolls. I mean, having a really good wisdom does NOT make me any proficient at shooting rays at people.
I fail to see why a mage has got to be as mundane as a fighter. DAMMIT, he IS NOT! Dude, he uses magic, magic is not supposed to be something common!
All classes in 4e are essencially the same! All you change is: the name of the powers, some of it's effect (which, frankly, end up on either push, pull, negs ou ongoing.), range and targets. Otherwise, a fighter is slightly different than a paladin, so much that I would just pick the strongest one!
Weak, oh the weak fluff.
I don't like WotC's attitude. They have a bad business model, the ruthlessly cancel products and don't even give the costumers any satisfaction.
And their board's members attitude. When I come here all I see is a bunch of PF fans exchanging ideas, experiences and, overall, satisfied with Paizo. It's a pleasant sommunity, with a lot of helpful people in love with their game. Well, there all I see if people fighting, complaining about the company, etc. Also, there are a couple of ass-kissers there that I just can't stand! All WotC does is plain awesome to them!
PF designers actually post on the boards, they give a damn about the costumers and are just plain awesome.
The books are marvelous, from the art to the layout, everything has a fantasy feeling. 4e books are white with thing written in it and some horrific art (I'm looking at you, dragonborns and PHB2 Barbarian!). Although I do think PF books are more frail.
I just switched to PF, and I'll DM Rise of the Runelords this weekend. I'll try to earn as much experience as I can, but I'm already terrified about the long prep work eveyone talks about. I just hope to be able to find my way into a simpler way to prepare my games (I don't know if it'll really be a problem, because me players are really simple minded, NOT powergamers at all...)
EDIT: OH YES. Hasbro. I hate Hasbro behind it all. They cancelled the minis, for which they should die a horrible death. Thanks to that I was introduced to Games Workshop, much better products, but take a time I just don't have!
Hey guys, how are you all?
This question seems a little silly in my own head, and I really did took my time before asking it, but it's been bugging me so much that I decided to go on and do it.
As read in the Core rulebook, a character using a reach weapon, such as a long spear, or a Monster with reach CAN NOT target foes adjacent to them?
I understand the intention here, but when it is kinda weird.
Am i right or I misread?
Thanks a lot for replying guys, I feel more confident now. Although the game is really rules heavy, I'm just loving every single inch of it, and the fact that it gives me so many possibilities makes me itch to play.
I'll start slow to fell the game and let the adventure develop. I'm picking Rise of the Runelords as a starting AP, so let's see what happens!
Thanks a loT! Again! It's great to know we have a good supporting community also!
This thread really makes me worry.
I too just got back from a misventure with 4e (it stopped making sense to me) and got both the Core Rulebook and the Bestiary.
I've been reading about prep time and how hard it is to DM at high levels, and somehow I don't think I'll ever manage that.
I'm not done reading the book yet (it's not even in my native language, so it takes a little more time than normal), so I'm kinda lost when it comes to creature/NPC creating, but it seems the common opinion that 15lv+ is DM's hell.
I play with a group that learns the game playing it: they WON'T read the books, that I'm certain of. That'll probably slow the game down a LOT.
Also, I don't really have time to prepare that much, and it seems that the creatures of the Bestiary alone won't do it with a high level party.


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The Way We Come Out Now: Ambivalently
Jodie Foster, Frank Ocean, and the complicated self-outing.
It must be weird to be Jodie Foster, going to bed having given a speech that she explicitly declared was "not her big coming out speech," only to wake up to headlines that she had given her big coming out speech at the Golden Globes last night. Not least of all because she has been on the record about her same-sex relationship for more than five years. But Foster's seven-minute speech did have a lot in common with recent celebrity self-outings, in that it wasn't really about being gay. It was about how she's more than the LGBT label a traditional big coming out speech would have attached to her career.
Last year, the Observer reported that the splashy and sometimes career-damaging "I'm gay!" confession (à la Ellen DeGeneres) had given way to "well-managed, low-key affairs." The newspaper cited Zachary Quinto, Jim Parsons, and Matt Bomer, whose nonchalant mentions of same-sex relationships would appear at the end of a newspaper profile or as an aside in an award acceptance speech.
But Foster's primetime speech was no minor aside. It was high-profile as a magazine cover, but without the clarity of an "I'm Gay" cover line. While Clay Aiken and Lance Bass exclaimed their homosexuality from covers of People in 2008 and 2006, respectively, Foster's speech didn't even include the word gay or its synonyms. Her only allusion to her sexuality was the charming description of Cydney Bernard, her "ex-partner in love but righteous soul sister in life ... confessor, ski buddy, consigliere, most-beloved BFF of twenty years." (Anyone else planning on stealing that to refer to exes?) The instant reaction on Twitter reminded me of Frank Ocean's summer Tumblr post describing a relationship with a man, which was widely taken as confirmation of the bisexuality hinted at in his lyrics. Not that an interviewer for GQ could get him to say as much. Ocean told the magazine he wasn't selling sex, he was selling love stories, which are the same whether you're gay or straight. "I'm giving you what I feel like you can feel," he said. "The other shit, you can't feel. You can't feel a box. You can't feel a label. Don't get caught up in that shit."
He's not the only one worried about labels. New York Times blogger Nate Silver, the election season's star statistician, angered some when he joked to Out that he is "sexually gay but ethnically straight." He added, "I don't want to be Nate Silver, gay statistician, any more than I want to be known as a white, half-Jewish statistician who lives in New York." He later explained in a Reddit AMA that "people are too quick to affiliate themselves with identity groups of all kinds."
For better or for worse, Silver's belief seems to be the future of the mainstream gay rights movement in this country. Identity politics can reinforce the generalizations bigotry thrives on, while personal relationships breed tolerance. Thanks to the bravery of earlier generations (and despite underrepresentation in Hollywood), virtually everyone now knows someone who is openly gay. When President Obama stammered out his endorsement of same-sex marriage on ABC, the basis of his "evolution" on the topic wasn't basic fairness, but all his gay friends, family, staff members. He said:
"You know, Malia and Sasha, they've got friends whose parents are same-sex couples. And I-- you know, there have been times where Michelle and I have been sitting around the dinner table. And we've been talking and-- about their friends and their parents. And Malia and Sasha would-- it wouldn't dawn on them that somehow their friends' parents would be treated differently. It doesn't make sense to them. And-- and frankly-- that's the kind of thing that prompts-- a change of perspective. You know, not wanting to somehow explain to your child why somebody should be treated-- differently, when it comes to-- the eyes of the law.
But even when LGBT rights are equally protected under the law (and I think it is when), there will still be inequality in the burden of "coming out." Last night, Foster chalked up her burden to the changing demands of celebrity. She had been out in the industry for years, she said, "but now apparently, I'm told that every celebrity is expected to honor the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance, and a prime time reality show." That may be true, but I think Anderson Cooper got closer to the point when he momentarily abdicated his romantic privacy to come out in a public letter to Andrew Sullivan. "In a perfect world," Cooper wrote, "I don't think it's anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted."
When it comes to members of the LGBT community, "privacy" is too easily equated with cowardice or secrecy, and not just for "public figures." I always thought it was unjust that my gay friends had to stage a conversation with their parents about their sexuality (and often at an awkward age), while I could feasibly skate from menarche to motherhood without anyone batting an eye. That probably won't change until we stop projecting identity politics, "coming out" confessions, or labels on any moment of emotional authenticity, constructing closets around those we know to be living and loving happily and without shame.


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Editors Note: Make sure to check out this more recent pistol squat tutorial.
The one legged squat is a lot like a regular two legged squat except that you are standing on only one leg. I'm sure that seems pretty obvious, but my point in stating that fact is to remind you that the same elements that make for good form during a regular squat must still be considered. Maintaining good posture, initiating the movement from your hips and achieving parallel depth (or lower) are all essential components of any safe, effective squat–regardless of if you're using one or both legs.
Before you are going to begin working towards doing single leg squats, there are a few prerequisites that you ought to have out of the way to ensure a solid foundation. You should be able to perform a proper two legged squat with resistance that is equal to your body weight (ladies this goes for you too!), or if you aren't into going for one rep maxes, you should be comfortable squatting at least 65% of your body weight for multiple reps. Additionally, you should ensure that your form while doing these is safe by having a qualified supervisor watch you and look for any red flags. For example, if your heels come off the ground while you do your squats then you are probably not ready to try a single leg squat yet.
Now that we've gotten that taken care of, there are a few ways to approach training your body to do a one-legger. One method is to start from the bottom up. While sitting down on a bench, lift one foot off the ground. Lean forward and use the heel of your other foot to push into the floor while squeezing your abs tight, puffing your chest out, and reaching your arms out in front. Once you get to the top, try to lower yourself slowly and repeat. You will likely lose control during the lowering phase and wind up plopping down onto the bench at the bottom. That's fine for now. In time your control will improve to the point where you no longer need to sit on the bench.
Another method to employ while practicing towards doing a one legged squat is to practice from the top down. Stand on a bench, a bit off to the side with one foot hanging off the edge. Squat down so that one leg drops below the level of the bench. Make sure you stick out your hips and butt, and lean forward a bit–otherwise your balance will be off. If you are having a hard time balancing with this, hold onto something to guide you. A resista-band that is securely in place or a cable machine balanced with a full weight stack are great options. A broom handle works well too if you are doing these at home. If you have a training partner, have them assist you by either holding your hand or standing right by you so that you can grab them if you lose your balance. This is an exercise that I will literally hold my client's hand through the first time they try it!
In time you can progress to doing them on your own. Then you can try coming down off the bench. When you're standing on the ground, you'll reach your other leg farther out in the air and hold it as close to parallel with the ground as you can. This is commonly referred to as a pistol squat. A lot of people find holding the other leg out to be the real challenge of performing a solid pistol.
Another variation is to perform them with your secondary leg crossed over the squatting leg. This gives extra stability and is sometimes easier for beginners. However, for those of us with tight hips, this position adds a flexibility challenge that isn't a concern with the pistol squat. Each variation will be a unique experience on your journey, and a unique challenge to you as an individual. As always, experiment with as many variations as you can. And of course, don't just sit there reading this–get out there and live it!


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RUSH: It is just a thrill and a delight, as we enter the annual Christmas season, we can say that that's probably true, Thanksgiving coming very late this year, and this kicks it off, and it's weather appropriate. Change of seasons is taking place. The opportunity for the attitudinal mind shift into the holiday season. And I, perkily, your beloved host, we really get into it here, and we enjoy it immensely. Thanksgiving, of course, is a season I take very seriously, because I am deeply thankful. I try to take the occasion of this day, the day before Thanksgiving, to share some of that with you, and extend wishes from the highly overrated staff who wish you the same.
I realize that many of you are in transit, on the way to wherever you're going, and some of you believe CNN and thought you couldn't get there, so you're hunkered down at home. Some of you are trying to get there, and having big trouble. I mean, there are cancellations. It's Thanksgiving. This happens every year. You can make book on it. And so we'll be here getting you through the day, at least our portion of it, with some traditions.
We are going to share with you once again as we always do every year, the real, true story of Thanksgiving. And I must tell you, folks, it is gratifying to see more and more instances of that popping up. For example, John Stossel has a piece today on the real story of Thanksgiving. He makes an additional point in his piece that the federal government and the way it administers Indian reservations and Indian lands today, outside of the casinos, haven't learned anything. The Indians are still governed the way the Pilgrims originally attempted to govern themselves. It didn't work.
I don't know about you, but, when I went to school, the public school system had not been corrupted, at least not to the extent that it has been today, and I don't think at all, and even I did not get the full story of Thanksgiving when I was a kid. I didn't learn what it was until I started doing research for my book, one of my first two books in which the original story appears.
RUSH: Now, what are you laughing at? I haven't said one thing funny yet. Hm-hm. Oh. Well, what, the phones today? If liberals want equal time to rag on America? You know, I live in their heads.
Folks, I'm sitting here, and I got an e-mail from a friend that says, "Look at the impact you're having. You are living free in their heads." I've got here a Democrat fundraiser e-mail that was sent out, and it says, "This time of year the only thing more annoying than holiday traffic is an awkward conversation with family about politics. Don't get me wrong. I love the Republicans in my life, but nothing ruins a slice of pecan pie faster than talking through immigration reform with a cousin who spends too much time listening to Rush Limbaugh. That's why we're launching YourRepublicanUncle.com. If you want to make sure that the political debates around your dinner table this Thanksgiving stay tethered to reality, you should check it out." And if you keep reading this e-mail, you eventually get to the begging and the pleading for money.
And Organizing for Action, which is an offshoot of Obama's Organizing for America website, have put out talking points for rabid left-wingers, guidance on how to take over and dominate Thanksgiving dinner so as to propagandize Obamacare. So, at the same time, they're sending out a fundraising letter lamenting that Democrats might have to spend time with somebody that listens to me, they're also trying to propagandize your and everybody else's Thanksgiving dinner by making sure that the subject matter occurs in a propaganda form that they support. So they leave nothing to chance. These people are pathetic. But you've been warned. This is something that they have planned.
RUSH: "Dead White Guys, or What the History Books Never Told You: The True Story of Thanksgiving." By the way, this true story is also recreated in my latest book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims. "The story of the Pilgrims begins in the early part of the Seventeenth Century ... The Church of England under King James I was persecuting anyone and everyone who did not recognize its absolute civil and spiritual authority. Those who challenged ecclesiastical authority and those who believed strongly in freedom of worship were hunted down, imprisoned, and sometimes executed for their beliefs. A group of separatists first fled to Holland and established a community.
"After eleven years, about forty of them agreed to make a perilous journey to the New World, where they would certainly face hardships, but could live and worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences. On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers," and a talking horse. Well, I'm adding that in, a talking horse. (laughing) " It carried a total of 102 passengers including forty Pilgrims led by William Bradford. On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract, that established just and equal laws for all members of the new community, irrespective of their religious beliefs. Where did the revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact come from? From the Bible. The Pilgrims were a people completely steeped in the lessons of the Old and New Testaments. They looked to the ancient Israelites for their example.
"And, because of the biblical precedents set forth in Scripture, they never doubted that their experiment would work. But this [voyage on the Mayflower] was no pleasure cruise, friends. The journey to the New World was a long and arduous one. And when the Pilgrims landed in New England in November, they found, according to Bradford's detailed journal, a cold, barren, desolate wilderness. There were no friends to greet them, he wrote. There were no houses to shelter them. There were no inns where they could refresh themselves. And the sacrifice they had made for freedom was just beginning." They stayed and lived on the Mayflower, some of them, for quite a while. "During the first winter, half the Pilgrims -- including Bradford's own wife -- died of either starvation, sickness or exposure. When spring finally came," it's true, "Indians taught the settlers how to plant corn, fish for cod and skin beavers for coats.
"Life improved for the Pilgrims, but they did not yet prosper! This is important to understand because this is where modern American history lessons often end" in the teaching of Thanksgiving. Pilgrims poor, desolate, starving, homeless, new place, not knowing anything, Indians came along and saved 'em. That is where most kids' story of Thanksgiving stops. But it really hadn't even yet begun. "Thanksgiving is actually explained in some textbooks as a holiday for which the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives, rather than as a devout expression of gratitude grounded in the tradition of both the Old and New Testaments," the Bible.
"Here is the part that has been omitted: The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into with their merchant-sponsors in London called for everything they produced to go into a common store, and each member of the community," every pilgrim, "was entitled to one common share. All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belonged to the community as well. They were going to distribute" everything they owned and everything they built "equally. All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belonged to the community as well.
"Nobody owned anything. They just had a share in it. It was a commune, folks. It was the forerunner to the communes we saw in the '60s and '70s out in California -- and it was complete with organic vegetables, by the way." There's no question they were organic vegetables in the fertilizer back then. Monsanto didn't exist. There was no Archer Daniels Midland corrupting and polluting our food. There was no Van de Kamp's or Heinz or any of that. There was no John Kerry. There was no Teresa Forbes Kerry, whatever, Heinz Kerry. It was just the Pilgrims and the land.
William "Bradford, who had become the new governor of the colony, recognized that this form of collectivism was as costly and destructive to the Pilgrims as that first harsh winter, which had taken so many lives. He decided to take bold action. Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family to work and manage," and it was theirs. He assigned it, but they owned it, "thus turning loose the power of the marketplace. That's right. Long before Karl Marx was even born, the Pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism. And what happened? It didn't work!"
They nearly starved!
"It never has worked!" Do you know why it didn't work? "What Bradford and his community found was that the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anyone else," because everybody had an equal share, "unless they could utilize the power of personal motivation!" They were not going to be able to change anything. "But while most of the rest of the world has been experimenting with socialism for well over a hundred years -- trying to refine it, perfect it, and re-invent it," spend more money on it, "the Pilgrims decided early on to scrap it permanently.
"What Bradford wrote about this social experiment should be in every schoolchild's history lesson. If it were, we might prevent much needless suffering in the future," such as that we're enduring now, trying the same thing over and over. This is Bradford. "'The experience that we had in this common course and condition. The experience that we had in this common course and condition tried sundry years...that by taking away property, and bringing community into a common wealth, would make them happy and flourishing -- as if they were wiser than God,' Bradford wrote.
"'For this community [so far as it was] was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort," meaning, nobody worked any harder than they had to because they didn't get to keep anything that they made. It all went into a common store. There was a bunch of laziness that set in, and some people didn't do anything. They got an equal share of everything anyway, so why work? It's human nature.
Bradford wrote, "For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children,'" without being paid for it, meaning they finally figured out: Why are we doing this? The ones who were working, the ones who were creative and industrious, while others were sitting around doing, asked: Why should we do this? It was "'thought injustice.' Why should you work for other people when you can't work for yourself?" That's what he was saying. "The Pilgrims found that people could not be expected to do their best work without incentive. So what did Bradford's community try next? They unharnessed the power of good old free enterprise by invoking the undergirding capitalistic principle of private property."
Bradford again. "Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work and permitted to market its own crops and products. And what was the result? 'This had very good success,' wrote Bradford, 'for it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.'" It's trickle down here, folks. The Pilgrims discovered it. It existed well before the 1980s. "Now, this is where it gets really good, folks, if you're laboring under the misconception that I was, as I was taught in school. So they set up trading posts and exchanged goods with the Indians." The Indians had saved their lives earlier, but now they had all of this bounty that their foray into capitalism had produced. "The profits allowed them to pay off their debts to the merchants in London.
"And the success and prosperity of the Plymouth settlement attracted more Europeans and began what came to be known as the 'Great Puritan Migration.'" The word of prosperity spread back across the Atlantic Ocean. That's how big it was. "But this story stops when the Indians taught the newly arrived suffering-in-socialism Pilgrims how to plant corn and fish for cod. That's where the original Thanksgiving story stops, and the story basically doesn't even begin there.
"The real story of Thanksgiving is William Bradford giving thanks to God for the guidance and the inspiration to set up a thriving colony. The bounty was shared with the Indians." There was a thanks to the Indians. They had so much, they had the Indians over. They did sit down, and they did have free-range turkey and organic vegetables. But it was not the Indians that save the Pilgrims, and "it was not the Indians who saved the day. It was capitalism and Scripture which saved the day," as acknowledged by George Washington in his first Thanksgiving Proclamation in 1789.
Folks, if you read -- and I've got it here, I don't think I'm gonna have time to get into it, but George Washington's original Thanksgiving Proclamation will send any atheist running for the hills. It is thanks to God for the Constitution, for the inspiration for the Constitution. Thanks to God for the inspiration for the founding of the country. It's why so many of us are so devoted to preserving this country as founded and not allowing it to become what the Pilgrims nearly died first establishing.
I can't leave it here without once again telling all of you how utterly important you are to this country and how utterly important you are to this program. How much you have meant to me and my family and all of us here, the overrated staff, everybody. This show would not exist and it would not be what it is today without you. We love you to death here because we know that you are the people who make this country work.
I wish there were ways beyond words that I could show you and express it. But as of now, there aren't, so I'll just have to use my words, but, believe me, we all here have the greatest appreciation for all of you, and how utterly important you all are to this country. That's the true story of Thanksgiving. Have a great one.
RUSH: This is not a cliche. As bad as things look to us politically, the Drive-By Media, the establishment, the Democrat Party and so forth doesn't compare to what the Pilgrims faced and went through, or the people who founded and established the country. That's why you are all utterly important. I don't mean that just to be a gratitudinous thing. It's a responsibility, folks. That's why you're here. See you next week. Have a great holiday.


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Via: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-05-28/how-senate-just-took-hatchet-american-liberty
Expect new national security letter options for email access domestically with less court oversight.
Via: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-05-28/how-senate-just-took-hatchet-american-liberty
Expect new national security letter options for email access domestically with less court oversight.
Via: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-16/conspiracy-theorists-bloggers-compared-isis-during-congressional-hearing
Welcome to the Information War where truth is back to been part of vast conspiracy theories.
Via: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/telstras-data-vacuum-20131205-2yucb.html
How Australia's telephone and Web 2.0 use is tracked: In bulk and filtered later.
Welcome to the world of the special projects group.
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Welcome to many happy hours of positive opinion ready for domestic U.S. consumption.
Enjoy your counterprogramming.
Via: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/prism-revelations-home-office-warns-airlines-not-to-fly-nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-to-britain-8658633.html
"Carriers should deny boarding. This individual is highly likely to be refused entry to the UK."
Strange how the UK gov can be so fixated of this issue with Mr Snowden's photograph, passport number and date of birth…
after its years of uncontrolled immigration paperwork and many working "students".
Via: www.information-age.com/technology/mobile-and-networking/123457043/ee-and-ipsos-mori-face-privacy-backlash-over-mobile-data-analysis
An anonymised mobile phone usage data package came with a nice bit of info: your location down to ~100 metres.
The data was all anonymised, aggregated- just dont think too much about the 100m part.
Via: www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/tweeters-could-be-military-targets-20121213-2bcjq.html
Could using social media or blog comments about any military operation make you a legal military target?
The Geneva Convention protecting civilians could be removed if a power feels uploading, downloading or sharing is part of the fight. How long before "knowingly providing material support or resources to an entity that has been designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act." becomes just "providing material support or resources to an entity that has been designated""
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) working with U.S. Northern Command's (Northcom) Operations Division will form the Northern Command Joint Cyber Center (JCC). They will work with the Homeland Security Department….
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The new Domestic Communications Assistance Center will work on electronic surveillance technologies, including intercepting Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications for the FBI. CALEA is getting a web 2.0 update 🙂
Via: www.lawgazette.co.uk/in-practice/practice-points/all-power-gchq
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A legal setting for what was once hidden.
Via: www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-04-19/vanden-brook-locker-propaganda/54419654/1
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The final scheduled pretrial conference for the attorneys in the Kevin Murphy murder case will be held today before Westmoreland County Judge Al Bell in Greensburg.
Murphy is the Saltsburg man charged with three counts of first degree murder in the April 2009 shooting deaths of his mother, sister, and aunt at the family's glass business across the river from Saltsburg in Loyalhanna Township.
In an aspect of the case that has not previously been brought to public light, Murphy's attorneys Mark Bolkovac and Robert Bell last week filed motions to exclude computer testimony and testimony related to his involvement in organized crime. Sometime before the trial begins, Bell is expected to rule on those motions and a possible defense motion to have the jury visit the scene of the crime.
Jury selection begins next Monday.
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