Dragon Age: Redemption

I have Dragon Age 2, but only played like 30 min. of it. So many other games getting in the way... DA and this new add-on just might make it jump to the front.

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Occupy Your Hometown

So I have been pretty much getting sidetracked ... Too many really good games.. Dead Island, Gears, getting back into Halo... and just started Batman Arkham Asylum on the PS3, cause City looks awesome.

Been out. -_-

Been pretty much bed ridden the past few days. Have issues with my back every few years... Sucks, but staying off of it for a few days always does the trick. Been watching the news for the Occupy movement. Hope you all have too. I have to admit though, I am starting to get lost on where this is/will be heading. Maybe they should have had a more defined lead. I will however, be quite happy if it at least opens some eyes in Washington and makes them realize that "We, the People" aren't happy and we know your not representing us.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QTfNEDgusQ[/youtube]

Hmm, job #'s revised??

So there really is a need to "Spell Out" what it is the Occupy movement wants. Do things really need to be that dumbed down and simplistic?

The best that I have been able to find is again from one of our gaming favorites... Kevin Pereia... again. (Much <3 for Kev :) ) He just has good natural reportive instincts.

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I also found that if you spend a few minutes and actually connect with the people involved, you’ll quickly find there are common threads and concrete desires which would likely encourage broader support if universally adopted.

1. Get corporations out of politics.

The voices of everyday Americans are being drowned out powerful interest groups who finance the campaigns and line the pockets of our politicians. Big oil, health insurance companies, Wall Street banks… they’re the ones calling the shots, we just get to elect the pretty people in suits who answer to them. This problem can and must be solved.

2. Wall Street Reform and Justice.

Not a single executive from Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers, AIG, Citibank or Goldman Sachs has gone to jail. Take three seconds and search any of their names with the term “fraud” and you’ll find article after article packed with information about how these companies knowingly cost investors (this country) billions. They cooked books, packaged knowingly toxic loans then sold them as top-shelf product, inflated commodity prices through manipulation and awarded themselves millions in bonuses even after we (taxpayers) bailed them out. It’s okay to want them all regulated, investigated and eventually incarcerated. They’ve earned it. Side note? Corporations are not people, their money shouldn’t be speech (see why here), and we need major campaign finance reform.

3. Domestic Investment.

For every dollar we spend blowing something up real-good-like in a foreign territory, can’t we spend a dollar here at home? Grab your granola drum-sticks everyone, it’s time to bang the hippy-drum. Education (thud-thud), infrastructure (thud-thud), healthcare (thud-thud), clean energy (finger-cymbals), safe foods (thud-thud). Hundreds of passionate pleas boil down to focusing; spending the precious time and resources we have here at home and not abroad. Not a bad cause to lump in. A bit nebulous, I must admit… but what the hell.

These are observations gleaned from interactions with folks at the satellite Occupy event in Los Angeles. They may not be reflective of all the desires held by everyone occupying a major city at this point in time, but at least they’re concise and ACTIONABLE.

• You can call for the immediate reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act and demand unprecedented campaign finance reform to try and lessen the corporate stranglehold on our government.

• You can chant for new regulations and a beefed up SEC/DOJ to investigate Joe Cassano, Dick Fuld, John Mack, etc. Don’t know who they are? Read up! I know that’s harder than pretending they don’t matter and haven’t negatively impacted your existence, but they likely have. So google it. Or ask Jeeves. Even that old bastard can tell you.

In the end some media outlets will only focus on the t-shirt slogan’ed radicals dripping with sweat and warpaint, along with outliers marching solely for their personal agenda. But I’ve seen the movement with my own eyes. It’s demographically diverse. Passionate. And in one way or another, representing all of us.

http://www.kevinpereira.com/

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A view from last nights Occupy Austin. (good ending :) )

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Ever notice how things like the jobs numbers were reported as "0" in Aug., pushed stocks to tumble down.Now they are being "revised" at 57,000, making stocks go up? Think there's not people somewhere manipulating that to buy low and sell high?

99% of EVERYBODY is WELCOME!!!

Language NSFW!!!!!!!!

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Occupy Austin

Occupy Wall Street is not about RIGHT or LEFT. It’s about RIGHT and WRONG. This movement is intended to represent NINETY-NINE PERCENT of America. Regardless of what your political beliefs may be, you MUST recognize that Conservatives along with Democrats, Libertarians and Tea Party members are all integral parts of the “majority”.

Respectfully,

-Kevin Pereira

http://www.kevinpereira.com/2011/10/proceed-with-caution/

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Occupy Wall Street

Sorry if this is not the appropriate place for this, but I will be turning my attention on this blog to the "Occupy Wall Street" movement for a while. I personally think that it is an important message and one that is getting very little air time on any news network. I think they are scared of this blowing up and looking like Libya and Egypt. It won't, but I don't think they want to take a chance either.

I have been disappointed, to say the least, in Washington’s ineffectiveness to get anything accomplished at all with all the bickering and politics. The main thing they need to address is getting our $$ back into circulation, not in Wall Streets' main players pockets.

I am seeing that some of the bigger news networks are giving a little attention to the movement, but they are purposely picking out little pieces to discredit everything (big surprise).

This revolution will be Blogged, Tweeted, Google’d, Facebooked, YouTube’d, liked, shared and +1’ed throughout the internet.

It will not be silenced. It’s still, “We, the People”…. Right?

I just want a place to show clips of what is going on, inform, learn and discuss with my fellow gamers.

This is our generations hippy movement……. And with Wall Street Zombies :)

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http://occupywallst.org/

http://occupyaustin.org/

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Led Zepp &#39;75

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Happy Friday!

Found this today and had to post..

 Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers - Van Halen style......

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Hippies For Kids :)

Growing up, this show and Batman (Adam West), would keep me mesmerized in front of the TV. I always wanted to do a remake of this song, but it never happened.

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