• 18Dec 08

  [adult swim] on Xbox Live

  Family Guy comes to Xbox Live

  FOX recently signed on with Xbox Live Video Marketplace, and the first series available for the digital download-to-own service is Family Guy. FOX joins other television networks and movie studios on the service, including CBS, NBC Universal, Paramount, Warner Bros., MTV Networks and Lionsgate.

  Family Guy was chosen to kick off the new content deal because of its attraction to the younger male demographic responsible for most of the downloads on the Xbox 360's Video Marketplace service. Starting next week, the series' first two seasons will become available, along with the Family Guy DVD movie/three-part episode, Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story. Newer seasons will follow, with fresh episodes hitting Video Martketplace the day after they debut on television.

  This is very cool news for Family Guy fans, but I wonder how many people will download the episodes, considering the fact that Family Guy episodes are fairly ubiquitous these days. They're constantly being shown on Adult Swim and TBS, and, with a syndication launch just around the corner, not to mention DVDs, it's not like fans have been left wanting. But hey, it's another way to see and enjoy the series, so why the heck not?

  http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/videos/catalog.aspx?d=2&h=0&r=-1&g=-1&sb=1&s=7017&mt=0&rl=0&p=1

  • Posted Dec 18, 2008 6:08 am PT
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• 5Mar 08

  Clinton Wins

  

  Clinton Wins Ohio by 54%
  Rhode Island by 58%
  Texas by 51%
  
  Obama wins Vermont by 60%
  
  We Clinton supporters are loyal.
  
  When Barack attacked Hillary with the same ads as used in the 1990's to defeat universal healthcare (a core democratic belief) I decided right then that I had no use for him...those very ads will be used against him and the democratic party to stop universal healthcare from happening should he win the presidency... as well those ads brough back deep memories and heartache as we democrats watched our dreams go up in smoke as the GOP stomped on our belief system! Barack Obama had no right to use them against Hillary and core democrats will make sure he pays a heavy price for his actions in the fall ...
  
  Middle names are not off limits...and neither is race...
  The GOP will use everything against him, and what will happen? ANOTHER JOHN KERRY!
  
  This phallacy that the Democrats will conform and unify behind the nominee if it is to be Barack Obama is nothing more than Phallacy.. Many of us have been with Hillary for (20 years or more) and I am not willing to support another candidate... We knew that one day she would run and now is her time...Barack knew this and he should have waited until she has had her 8 years in office...
  
  I will guarantee that if he wins the nomination, millions of Hillary supporters (the CORE democrats) will not support him in the fall and this will probably cost the democrats the election! Barack Obama picked the wrong person to attack and mischaracterize... BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON were HERO'S to many of us and our support is genuine and unshakeable...

  SuperDelegates: Clinton 256 Obama 203

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• 25Dec 07

  Ron Paul Blows Volume 6 by Fred Stopsky 77 years old

  A Christmas Tale: Libertarianism, Paulism, and Fantasy
  
  Christmas is a time of fantasy and dreams. It is also a time when humans take pride in their relationship with other people and are proud to be part of the human community. During the past several months writing this blog, I continually encounter the Ron Paul/Libertarianism cohort who believe freedom entails being free of "coercive government" and a return to a time when people controlled their property and were free of nasty intrusions like income taxes and laws that said people had to behave in certain ways. So, this is my Christmas tale.
  I was born at a time when the income tax took about 1% of money, when there were no laws guaranteeing social security nor minimum wages and workers could be beaten by property owners for daring to organize into unions. If a Catholic or Jew or Negro wanted to purchase a home, the owner could inform them of his right to be a bigot, and many a newspaper still had employment ads stating, 'No Irish Need Apply." It was truly an era in which "property rights" allowed a person complete control without any thought of civic obligations to fellow members of the community. And, of course, if you were sick and lacked money or had lost your job, there was always charity to pull you through. God bless the Salvation Army, just line up, bow your head, say a few prayers, and you got a bowl of soup and a lice infested blanket to use for sleeping. We didn't have any of that coercive government around to provide food and lodging for the poor. I guess, for Ron Paul, that was a perfect Christian world which personified the ideals and values of Jesus Christ.
  Unfortunately, for libertarianists, along came the evil Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal which began the modern era of "coercive government." Laws were passed stating employers had to pay minimum wages, had to contribute to retirement of workers through the social security system, had to guarantee safe working conditions, and drugs and products were inspected by "coercive government" to ensure health standards were maintained. Youth were provided money to attend college and the Civilian Conservation Corps was created to ensure young people had productive jobs. For their parents, the "coercive government" provided jobs through the WPA. Of course, these "lazy welfare bums" built great highways, halted erosion of soil, built schools and hospitals and community centers, all products of "coercive government" intruding .. rights and actually insisting the wealthy pay slightly higher taxes.
  Coercive government got much worse in the 1940s and 1950s. The G.I. Bill of Rights paid veterans to go to college or trade schools with all expenses taken care of as well as living expenses. President Truman actually believed he had the power to "force" white soldiers to accept Negroes into their units, and that damn "coercive" Supreme Court had the nerve to state segregation was illegal. They even told bigoted property owners they could not deny Jews and Catholic and Negroes of the right to live where they so desired. The dream world of free people unfettered by "coercive" government was under attack. Why can't people be bigots? How dare the government actually say it was illegal to set quotas as to the number of Jews who could attend a college? To libertarians, this is a free country and people and institutions have a right to behave in any manner they so desire.
  I am always fascinated reading Ron Paul and the libertarians when it comes to stating government creates problems. The Northwest Ordinance of the 1780s gave land to states that could be sold to build colleges. That, NOT FREE ENTERPRISE, is the source of most midwestern state universities. Tom Jefferson was the one who used FEDERAL MONEY to begin the first national road--later it became highway 40. The entire canal system of America was built with COERCIVE GOVERNMENT MONEY, and there would be no railroads spanning the continent without FEDERAL MONEY. Mr. Paul, is there something wrong with your theory of coercive government when Federal and State money is used to build transportation systems which then enable private enterprise to make huge fortunes and farmers to become productive?
  I am frightened and angry at actions of the Bush administration which has made major assaults on our freedoms. But, I am also aware this generation has greater access to freedom of speech than any prior generation in American history. During WWI, President Wilson imprisoned dozens of people for "speaking" against war policies, including Eugene Debs, who ran for President in 1912 as a Socialist and got a million votes The other day I received a missive from someone who claimed the "coercive government" was taking away his freedom of speech. This person was writing on a COMPUTER and using the INTERNET--two developments that arose due to GOVERNMENT MONEY--and saying he disliked the government intruding into his private life!! The Internet and MySpace and Facebook have nonstop attacks on government by people who claim "the government" is taking away their right to attack the government!!
  Ron Paul is a very decent man. I like him as a human being. He has admirable feelings and emotions and means well. Unfortunately, his ideas on economics, politics, and social interactions are more conducive to a 19th century society than one of the 21st century. He lives in a fantasy world that exists in his mind, but was never part of the reality of the American historical experience. The history of America from day one witnessed government money being used to stimulate economic development. We have traveled-- and still are traveling-- a long road in the quest for government legislation to protect human rights. Allow the ideas of libertarians or Ron Paul to become the norm, and the poor of this world will be subjected to oppression of the wealthy.
  A few weeks ago, I wrote an essay stating that "I Am A Jesus Man." There is one thing I know in my heart, if Jesus Christ appeared tomorrow on his birthday, he would be on the side of government which ensures the dignity of human beings. As long as a child is denied decent food, clothing, medical care, education, and protection against abuse, I must use government to protect them. As long as working person faces poverty and charity to meet his/her needs, then I want government to respect their human dignity by providing funding. Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was predicated on the idea that you didn't give people something for nothing, you provided work because people need work to maintain their dignity.
  Let me conclude about a story which exemplifies the difference between Ron Paul and Franklin Roosevelt. In the initial days of the New Deal they were developing the WPA to provide work for the unemployed. Harry Hopkins, a close adviser, recalls that after finishing his conversation with the president, just has his hand touched the door knob, he turned around and asked: "Mr. President, what about artists and writers and musicians, should we also help them?" The president hesitated a moment, threw back his head and laughed while saying, "include them all." That remark led to among the most creative periods in American intellectual history. Yes, Mr. Paul, federal money paid musicians to play in Grant Central Station, it led to the birth of Black Theater and wonderful novels and histories, it led to capturing the folk music of Appalachian mountain people, and it meant millions had their human dignity respected.
  Tell me, Mr. Paul, if Jesus appeared today, whose ideas would he support, your libertarianism or my ideas for government aid?
  • Posted Dec 25, 2007 5:07 pm PT
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