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02:01:26 05/25/12
Myth McConnell
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In the wake of the debt-ceiling crisis he helped manufacture last summer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell boasted it was "a hostage that's worth ransoming" which "also is a new template" for the future. As it turns out, those threats were among the few true words McConnell has uttered. Because while he's promising once again to blackmail the White House over the debt ceiling, the Kentucky Republican claimed it's because "we'd like to do something about the nation's biggest problem, spending and debt, which of course is the reason for this economic malaise." Of course, as the data show, it's the very austerity policies here and in Europe which are costing jobs and hurting growth.
But Mitch McConnell's myth-making hardly ends there. On the economy, taxes, deficits, health care and so much else, virtually all of McConnell's talking points are tried - and untrue.
( Click a link to jump to the details for each below ):
* "Obama Made the Economy Worse"
* "No Evidence Whatsoever That the Bush Tax Cuts Actually Diminished Revenue"
* "Punishing Job Creators"
* "We Look a Lot Like Greece Already"
* Public Sector Layoffs Are a "Local" Problem
* 47 Million Uninsured Americans "Don't Go Without Health Care"
* The Public Option "May Cost You Your Life"
* Democrats Are "Sticking It to Seniors with Cuts to Medicare"
"Obama Made the Economy Worse"
For months, Mitch McConnell (for example, here , here and here ) regurgitated the GOP talking point that President Obama " made the economy worse ." Sadly for the trickle-down mythmakers of the Republican Party , the facts and the overwhelming consensus of economists - including John McCain's 2008 brain trust - prove otherwise. President Obama not only did not make the American economy worse; no thanks to obstructionist Republicans in Congress he saved the United States from "Great Depression 2.0" and put the nation on the path to recovery.
Start, for example, with the conclusions of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Despite Republican mythmaking that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) "created zero jobs," in November the CBO reported that the stimulus added up to 2.4 million jobs and boosted GDP by as much as 1.9 points in the previous quarter. As The Hill explained, the CBO has found that "President Obama's 2009 stimulus package continues to benefit the struggling economy": >
The agency said the measure raised gross domestic product by between 0.3 and 1.9 percent in the third quarter of 2011, which ended Sept. 30. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that GDP in that quarter was only 2 percent total...
By CBO's numbers, the $800 billion stimulus added up to 0.9 million jobs in 2009, 3.3 million jobs in 2010 and 2.6 million jobs in 2011.
Mark Zandi , an adviser to John McCain in 2008, was adamant on positive role of the stimulus. Federal intervention, he and Princeton economist Alan Blinder argued in August 2010, literally saved the United States from a second Great Depression. In " How the Great Recession Was Brought to an End ," Blinder and Zandi's models confirmed the impact of the Obama recovery program and other federal interventions dating back to 2008, concluding that "laissez faire was not an option": >
We find that its effects on real GDP, jobs, and inflation are huge, and probably averted what could have been called Great Depression 2.0. For example, we estimate that, without the government's response, GDP in 2010 would be about 11.5% lower, payroll employment would be less by some 8½ million jobs, and the nation would now be experiencing deflation.
"No Evidence Whatsoever That the Bush Tax Cuts Actually Diminished Revenue"
In his version of the Republican myth that " tax cuts pay for themselves ," President Bush confidently proclaimed, "You cut taxes and the tax revenues increase." As it turned out, not so much.
After Ronald Reagan tripled the national debt with his supply-side tax cuts, George W. Bush doubled it again with his own. (Reagan's performance would have been much worse, had he not raised taxes 11 times to help make up the shocking shortfall.) As a share of American GDP, tax revenues peaked in 2000; that is, before the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003. As the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities concluded, the Bush tax cuts accounted for half of the deficits during his tenure, and if made permanent , over the next decade would cost the U.S. Treasury more than Iraq, Afghanistan, the recession, TARP and the stimulus - combined .
Nevertheless, as the Republican Party waged its all-out attack in 2010 to preserve the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy , the GOP's number two man in the Senate provided the talking point to help sell the $70 billion annual giveaway to America's rich. "You should never," Arizona's Jon Kyl declared, "have to offset the cost of a deliberate decision to reduce tax rates on Americans." For his part, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell rushed to defend Kyl's fuzzy math: >
"There's no evidence whatsoever that the Bush tax cuts actually diminished revenue. They increased revenue because of the vibrancy of these tax cuts in the economy. So I think what Senator Kyl was expressing was the view of virtually every Republican on that subject."
That may have been a view universally shared by virtually every Republican, but it happens to be wrong.
"Punishing Job Creators"
For years, Senator McConnell has been among the legions of Republicans wrongly arguing that even the slightest increase in taxes for the wealthiest Americans is tantamount to " punishing job creators ." As his colleague John Boehner put it: >
"The top one percent of wage earners in the United States...pay forty percent of the income taxes...The people he's [President Obama] is talking about taxing are the very people that we expect to reinvest in our economy."
If so, those expectations were sadly unmet under George W. Bush. After all, the last time the top tax rate was 39.6 percent during the Clinton administration , the United States enjoyed rising incomes, 23 million new jobs and budget surpluses. Under Bush? Not so much.
On January 9, 2009, the Republican-friendly Wall Street Journal summed it up with an article titled simply, " Bush on Jobs: the Worst Track Record on Record ." (The Journal's interactive table quantifies his staggering failure relative to every post-World War II president.) The meager one million jobs created under President Bush didn't merely pale in comparison to the 23 million produced during Bill Clinton's tenure. In September 2009, the Congressional Joint Economic Committee charted Bush's job creation disaster, the worst since Hoover.
That dismal performance prompted David Leonhardt of the New York Times to ask last fall, "Why should we believe that extending the Bush tax cuts will provide a big lift to growth?" His answer was unambiguous: >
Those tax cuts passed in 2001 amid big promises about what they would do for the economy. What followed? The decade with the slowest average annual growth since World War II. Amazingly, that statement is true even if you forget about the Great Recession and simply look at 2001-7... >
Is there good evidence the tax cuts persuaded more people to join the work force (because they would be able to keep more of their income)? Not really. The labor-force participation rate fell in the years after 2001 and has never again approached its record in the year 2000. >
Is there evidence that the tax cuts led to a lot of entrepreneurship and innovation? Again, no. The rate at which start-up businesses created jobs fell during the past decade.
The data are clear: lower taxes for America's so called job-creators don't mean either faster economic growth or more jobs for Americans .
As Jared Bernstein aptly put it earlier this month: >
"Tax cuts and job growth? They're just not that into each other."
"We Look a Lot Like Greece Already"
As their last round of hostage-taking of the debt heated up last summer, Republicans including Mitch McConnell warned, "We look a lot like Greece."
hile FactCheck.org was quick to conclude that "whatever it 'looks like' through Sen. McConnell's eyes -- the fact is that the U.S. is not yet a fiscal wreck of Greek proportions," its analysis hardly does justice to the scale of the Republican myth-making. The Washington Monthly's Steve Benen summed it up quite succinctly: >
New rule: every time a confused Republican lawmakers compare the United States' fiscal conditions to that of Greece, an angel loses its wings.
Look, the very idea is just crazy. The U.S. has extremely low interest rates and foreign investor are happy to loan us money; Greece has extremely high interest rates and no one is eager to loan the country money. The U.S. has our own currency; Greece has the Euro. We have a great credit rating (for now); Greece has an awful credit rating. We have a manageable debt; Greece has a debt crisis. We're a large country with an enormous economy; Greece is a small country with a small economy. We have one of the world's most stable systems of government (at least until six months ago); Greece's government structure is a little shaky.
For his part, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has been decrying the " Hellenization of economic discourse " for months. "Greece -- with a long history of fiscal irresponsibility, very high public debt, and a country without a currency -- doesn't bear much resemblance even to the other peripheral Europeans, let alone the United States."
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Here's debt levels (if you ask me the IMF projections for Greece are too optimistic). >
Plus there's the having your own currency thing, and the fact that the interest rate on US 10-year bonds is 3.11 percent, on Greek bonds 16.82 percent. >
Otherwise we're exactly the same.
Public Sector Layoffs a "Local" Problem
Last fall, Minority Leader McConnell led the GOP opposition to President Obama's proposed $400 billion American Jobs Act. The loss of hundreds of thousands of police, firefighter, teacher and other public sector jobs, he insisted, was a "local" problem.
As it turns out, the 600,000 state and local government jobs already lost since December 2008 is very much a national issue. That " anti-stimulus ," it turns out, has added a full point to America's unemployment rate .
Last month, the Economic Policy Institute noted that the private sector had gained 2.8 million jobs while federal, state and local governments shed 584,000 just since June 2009. EPI concluded that the public sector job losses constituted "an unprecedented drag on the recovery": >
"The current recovery is the only one that has seen public-sector losses over its first 31 months."
Back in March, Paul Krugman expressed the same point , but with some inconvenient historical context for the Party of Reagan. "In fact, if it weren't for this destructive fiscal austerity," Krugman explained, "Our unemployment rate would almost certainly be lower now than it was at a comparable stage of the 'Morning in America' recovery during the Reagan era." >
We're talking big numbers here. If government employment under Mr. Obama had grown at Reagan-era rates, 1.3 million more Americans would be working as schoolteachers, firefighters, police officers, etc., than are currently employed in such jobs. >
And once you take the effects of public spending on private employment into account, a rough estimate is that the unemployment rate would be 1.5 percentage points lower than it is, or below 7 percent -- significantly better than the Reagan economy at this stage.
47 Million Uninsured Americans "Don't Go Without Health Care"
McConnell the " strict obstructionist " was naturally in the forefront of the all-out Republican effort to block health care reform at any cost. As he repeatedly put it in June 2009 , "all of us want reform, but not reform that denies, delays, or rations health care." To prove his point, McConnell didn't merely trot out a Canadian patient who came to the U.S. for special treatment, but insisted to NBC's David Gregory that no American does without health care now. >
GREGORY: Do you think it's a moral issue that 47 million Americans go without health insurance? >
McCONNELL: Well, they don't go without health care. It's not the most efficient way to provide it. As we know, the doctors in the hospitals are sworn to provide health care. We all agree it is not the most efficient way to provide health care to find somebody only in the emergency room and then pass those costs on to those who are paying for insurance. So it is important, I think, to reduce the number of uninsured. The question is, what is the best way to do that?
That President George W. Bush, Tom Delay and Paul Broun among other Republicans also claimed "people have access to health care in America...after all, you just go to an emergency room" doesn't make it any more true. As the numbers show -- 50 million uninsured, another 25 million uninsured, 45,000 unnecessary deaths, one in five Americans "self-rationing" care and 62 percent of all personal bankruptcies being related to medical bills -- the crisis is far worse than the one Mitch McConnell pretends doesn't exist.
The Public Option "May Cost You Your Life"
While Mitch McConnell insisted that the lack of insurance doesn't prevent anyone from getting health care, in 2009 he suggested having coverage could prove fatal . Months before the passage of the Affordable Care Act without the so-called "public option," Minority Leader McConnell said it would be deadly.
That irresponsible fear-mongering came during an appearance on Dennis Miller's radio show in October 2009. Blasting the "opt-out" version of the public option then being considered in the Senate bill, the Senator from the state ranked 45th in health care performance insisted access to coverage could kill you : >
MCCONNELL: Well, it doesn't make any difference frankly whether you opt-in or you opt-out, it's still a government plan. You know, Medicaid, the program for the poor now, states can opt-out of that, but none of them have. I think if you have any kind of government insurance program, you're going to be stuck with it and it will lead us in the direction of the European style, you know, sort of British-style, single payer, government run system. And those systems are known for delays, denial of care and, you know, if your particular malady doesn't fit the government regulation, you don't get the medication. >
MILLER: Right. >
MCCONNELL: And it may cost you your life. I mean, we don't want to go down that path.
As a Harvard Medical School study found, each year the path of no health insurance leads 45,000 Americans to the grave.
Democrats Are "Sticking It to Seniors with Cuts to Medicare"
For two years running, Mitch McConnell has been among the 40 GOP Senator voting for Paul Ryan's House budget plan to privatize and inevitably ration Medicare now used by 46 million American seniors. In the late 1990's, McConnell joined in Newt Gingrich's effort to slash almost 15 percent from the Medicare budget so that the program would "wither on the vine." But when the Affordable Care Act called for savings from the private Medicare Advantage program used by only 15 percent of elderly beneficiaries, it was Mitch McConnell who warned seniors about the mythical danger.
In July 2009, McConnell tried to scare America's 46 million Medicare beneficiaries by declaring, "The administration plans to use Medicare cuts to fund yet another new government program." Hoping to build on the momentum of the GOP's disgusting and demonstrably false " euthanasia " talking point, McConnell cautioned: >
"Some in Congress seem to be in such a rush to pass just any reform, rather than the right reform, that they're looking everywhere for the money to pay for it -- even if it means sticking it to seniors with cuts to Medicare."
That salvo comes just two weeks after McConnell promised to defeat health care reform in the Senate, warning America's highest turnout voting block: >
"They are going to pay for this plan by cutting Medicare, that is cutting seniors."
Those claims, the New York Times pointed out the day after the Republicans' overwhelming triumph in the 2010 midterms elections were misleading at best and false at worst. But, sadly, they worked .
And so it goes.
As Joshua Green documented last year in the Atlantic , "Mitch McConnell is a master manipulator and strategist" whose "relentless tactics have made his party victorious." But that doesn't make him a truth-teller, except on those rare occasions when he reveals his true motivations. During the debt ceiling stand-off last summer , McConnell briefly got weak in the knees at the prospect of U.S. sovereign default not because it would be a disaster for the nation, but because it could damage his Republican Party : >
"I refuse to help Barack Obama get re-elected by marching Republicans into a position where we have co-ownership of a bad economy. ... If we go into default, he will say that Republicans are making the economy worse and try to convince the public -- maybe with some merit, if people stop getting their Social Security checks and military families start getting letters saying service people overseas don't get paid. It's an argument he could have a good chance of winning, and all of the sudden we have co-ownership of a bad economy," he said. "That is very bad positioning going into an election."
Especially an election which marks the culmination of Mitch McConnell's work over the past three and a half years: >
"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."
(This piece also appears at Perrspectives .)
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14:09:58 05/23/12
No Quarter
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No Quarter
At NYU's annual No Quarter exhibition, the communal comforts of yesterday's game spaces live on as a testing ground for new titles from some of the world's top independent developers. From: TheVerge Views: 2408 43 ratings Time: 02:59 More in Science & Technology
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18:18:01 05/22/12
TLDR: Music Unlimited, Tron Uprising, and Another Giveaway
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Thanks for the Likes! Ask a question in the comments thread for tomorrow's TLDR. http://www.facebook.com/chrispirillo / http://twitter.com/ChrisPirillo Qualify for today's giveaway - click here and go to the Geekstakes tab: https://www.facebook.com/Modis/app_161033847281768 Sarah Beldum sent in this link: http://news.yahoo.com/court-wont-reduce-students-music-download-fine-144922490.html According to data from Statcounter - Google Chrome overtakes Internet Explorer as the Web's most used browser. Sony releases 'Music Unlimited' Spotify competitor as iOS app - streaming service. Uberconference debuted today as a new interface for conference calls - it's free, no PINs, visual dashboard, automatic authentication, easy indication as to who needs to be muted: http://uberconference.com/z5UJ8aSz Tron Uprising Vol 1 currently free in iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/becks-beginning/id518763883?i=526256517 YouTube users upload 72 hours of video every minute. Most users don't use multiple monitors. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/21/enhancing-windows-8-for-multiple-monitors.aspx Sam Durham asked: I'm about to buy the new iPad and I don't know whether to get a white or black one. TheAnnoyingLife from LockerGnome.net asked: http://lockergnome.net/questions/185251/how-do-you-deal-with-indecision DJ Scooby Doo from LockerGnome.net asked: http://lockergnome.net/questions/172911/is-windows-7-too-user-friendly @ninjeex on YouTube said: windows 8 sucks. linux is the way now @IAMNOTAGOODCHILD on YouTube asked: do you dye your hair? Kiryu13 on LockerGnome.net asked: http://lockergnome.net/questions/185155/what-should-i-engrave-on-my-ipod Michael Sitver from Gnomies.com asked: Do you have any titling tricks for your videos? How do you decide what goes in the description and what keywords to use? Do you max out your keywords or just use a few? @phototristan on YouTube asked: Can you do a video of a drive-by of Bill Gates house? @itsDoubleAA10 from YouTube asked: Do you think Android is going to become less open, because of the malware problems? @MomoMaxedOut from YouTube asked: I remember when you made a video about how much you hated jump cuts, am I missing something? @MineColbyCraft from YouTube asked: Got any tips for building a computer. Have you tried GoToAssist? http://go.tagjag.com/gotoassist http://www.lockergnome.com/subscribe/ http://www.gnomies.com http://go.tagjag.com/spread https://profiles.google.com/chris.pirillo http://twitter.com/ChrisPirillo http://www.facebook.com/chrispirillo
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20:42:47 05/21/12
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The Master Official Trailer [HD]: Joaquin Phoenix, Phillip Seymour Hoffman & Amy Adams
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The Master Official Trailer [HD]: Joaquin Phoenix, Phillip Seymour Hoffman & Amy Adams
In this official trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's 'The Master' starring Joaquin Phoenix, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams. In this clip there is no Hoffman, who plays a man who creates a belief system and watches it take off in post-war America. Phoenix plays a guy looking for something to believe in, who becomes the title character's right-hand man who then begins questioning his course. Many reports have claimed this movie is about Scientology, but from what I've heard it is as applicable to Mormonism or any modern-day belief system that launches and draws a following. For the full story read Deadline.com www.deadline.com From: ENTV Views: 19438 46 ratings Time: 01:40 More in Entertainment
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15:37:26 05/21/12
White House Wishes and JP Morgan Checks Pants! - NTN #127
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WHITE HOUSE: A PRAYER IS A WISH THE HEARTS MAKES… OR SOMETHING
Cap News is reporting the White House has proposed changing the National Day of Prayer to a "National Day of Wishing."
"What is prayer if not a form of wishing” President Obama told reporters. “Wishing for mercy, forgiveness, to win the lottery or that something horrible will befall our enemies."
Obama noted that it would in no way violate the separation of church and state to ask people of all faiths - or no faith - to engage in a nationally sponsored period of abject begging.
http://www.crystalair.com/story.php?id=201005006
JP MORGAN: OH THERE IT IS, GOSH WE FEEL STUPID
Just days after announcing it had lost 2 billion dollars of investor money through a series of questionable trades, JP Morgan now says it found the money in an old suit.
“Color us embarrassed,” said a bank spokesperson. “We’ve just go so much cash laying around, sometimes we misplace it.” He added there is obviously now no need for Washington to tighten regulations on banks, and implored everyone to pay attention to something else.
THE AVENGERS – TOO HARD TO TRIPLE X?
Porn makers who have had great success launching XXX parodies of popular shows and movies, say ripping off the Avengers is going to be tricky.
“It doesn’t lend itself to anything dirty,” said a spokesperson for Vivid Entertainment. “Ass-engers? The Rear-enders? It all feels so forced.” Other titles recently discarded include “The Booty Avengers and something about “Our Iron Man will make you Thor.”
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13:50:16 05/18/12
Special Report on Ineffective, Federal Job Training Programs Wasting $18 billion Annually
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Special Report on Ineffective, Federal Job Training Programs Wasting $18 billion Annually
FOX News' Special Report covers the issue of federal job training programs and a report released last year by Dr. Coburn, titled "Help Wanted", that draws on a GAO report exposing approximately $18 billion being wasted on job training programs that have produced little to no results. From: SenatorCoburn Views: 45 1 ratings Time: 02:50 More in News & Politics
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03:00:00 05/13/12
Big RE6 Sales and An Xbox 360 Browser - Press Pause Daily
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Capcom expects RE6 to make major bank and is the 360 getting a web browser?
SHOW NOTES:
Story 1:
The end of last week saw Capcom come out with its quarterly report, and inside were predictions about some upcoming games.
The biggest prediction is for this October’s Resident Evil 6. Capcom seems to think that across the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC versions of the game, that the title will sell 7 million copies worldwide.
That would make it the best selling title in the company’s history. At the moment, that honor belongs to the Super Nintendo edition of Street Fighter 2.
Other predictions in the report have the new Devil May Cry coming in at around 2 million copies, and Dragon’s Dogma and Lost Planet 3 pulling in 1.5 and 1.4 million copies respectively.
The last Resident Evil game has sold over 5 million as of last June, so it might not be that big a stretch for game number 6 to make it to 7 million.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/resident-evil-6-to-sell-7-million-6376267
Story 2:
Another story that hit at the end of last week states that Xbox 360 owners may be able to look forward to a web browser for their chosen system.
According to The Verge, Microsoft is currently in the testing phase right now. The new browser would put the 360 on par with the PS3, which has had a web browser basically from launch. The Xbox browser would be be a modified version of of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9, and would incorporate Bing search. It will also have Kinect support, though it won’t be mandatory for use.
As with most stories of this nature, there is no other information, or even a release date. You can bet though that if this does pan out, expect to hear about it at the Microsoft press conference during the upcoming E3.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/10/3012013/internet-explorer-browser-xbox-360-kinect
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13:59:54 05/04/12
Clemson Football Part Deux! - Shutdown Fullback
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Clemson Football Part Deux! - Shutdown Fullback
Spencer and Jason are joined by Clemson's finest wide receivers from all the way back to 1981! It's Part Deux of our Shutdown Fullback Theatre look at Clemson's legendary foosball program. SPOLIER: No chickens were taken advantage of in this episode...or cheeseburgers...(cough) Get your hand out of my popcorn! Credits: Hosts - Spencer Hall & Jason Kirk Guest Starring - Dan "The Danimal" Edwards Director/Producer - Lear Bunda Camera - Danielle Bernstein Audio - David Matysiak Edit - David Matysiak Production Coordinator - Laura McDowell Audio Sweeten - Will Mitchell 8bit GFX - Nick Ingkatanuwat Cat - Lloyd Fireball Title - Holly Anderson PA - Matt Simpson Music Credits: "Game on a day off" Composer: Hiroaki Ohmori (JASRAC) 100% Publisher: IZUTSU MUSIC (ASCAP) 100% 4. "Deep Thought" Composer: Ivan Pokorn%yacute (BMI) 100% Publisher: Zdenek Nedved - Studio Fontana (OSA) 100% From: sbnation Views: 1997 15 ratings Time: 11:48 More in Sports
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23:34:00 05/02/12
Skyrim News and Gamers Love Kickstarter - Press Pause Daily
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Bethesda is giving Skyrim players more and gamers LOVE Kickstarter.
SHOW NOTES:
Story 1:
Gamers have been making their way through the world of Skyrim, and Bethesda keeps adding more for gamers to use and enjoy.
First of course is this week’s update that added Kinect voice control to the game. It’s available now, and gives gamers over 200 voice commands.
Oh, but that’s not all. Bethesda also announced that the game’s first DLC pack, titled Dawnguard, would be coming to the Xbox 360 sometime this summer.
They offered no information about what it would contain, but stated that the details would become available at E3.
I know a lot of gamers that are pretty psyched about this, and I’m sure that are waiting with baited breath to hear what they have to look forward too.
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/01/skyrim-dawnguard-dlc/
Story 2:
Over the last several months, we have brought you many stories about game developers using Kickstarter to help fund their games. Well a recent story in the New York Times shows just how much the gaming public has responded.
According to the story, Kickstarter game projects have brought in over $20 million in the three years since the crowdfunding site was launched.
That brought game related projects to third place in average funding success. The average game project brought in $26,910. That was just behind technology projects and design endeavors.
As Kickstarter becomes an important way for devs to raise money, the concern that someone might abuse that for nefarious purposes also grows.
An example of this is the recent funding cancellation of the game Mythic: The Story of Gods and Men. The game was posted on the site until Kickstarter forum users exposed that the page was potential a scam to gain money. The reason for this was the charge that several pieces of artwork was taken from someone else’s work.
It’s disappointing that some would try to use Kickstarter to scam gamers, but it seems like most are on the up and up. There are quite a few games that we are interested in getting our hands on, and it’s highly unlikely they would have gotten made without Kickstarter.
http://uk.gamespot.com/news/kickstarter-game-projects-collect-over-20m-report-6374422
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19:42:11 05/02/12
Fable Heroes - Inside Lionhead April 2012 | XBLA | HD
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Fable Heroes - Inside Lionhead April 2012 | XBLA | HD
Key members of the development team share their views and ideas on Fable Heroes, the gameplay features and characters that gamers can expect for only 800 Microsoft Points from May 2nd 2012 onwards. Subscribe for more videos to: YouTube.com | LIKE @ Facebook.com | FOLLOW US on Twitter.com Fable Heroes started out as part of our yearly Creative Day, a day where anyone from the studio can showcase an idea they have for a title. It was green-lit and a 5 person team started working on the title in early 2011. This video diary contains no spoilers but does show never-seen-before gameplay footage! ABOUT THIS GAME ************************ "Fable Heroes" (Publisher: Microsoft Studios: Developer: Lionhead Studios) May 2, 2012 | 800 MS Points "Fable Heroes" is an action-packed, hack-and-slash adventure built for Xbox LIVE Arcade. It delivers a fresh spin on the "Fable" franchise with a unique art style and gameplay that takes playful competition to the next level. Whether on the couch or using Xbox LIVE, up to four players work together to defeat enemies while also competing with one another to collect gold coins and level up.Precious gold collected in Fable Heroes can be imported into the forthcoming Kinect title, Fable: The Journey, providing players with a valuable head start from day one. Fable Heroes ******************* GENRE: Hack'n'Slash Adventure RELEASE DATE(S): + (US): May 2, 2012 + (EU): May 2, 2012 PLATFORM: XBLA EXCLUSIVELY ON: XBLA WEBSITE: lionhead.com AVAILABLE ... From: XboxViewTV Views: 770 31 ratings Time: 04:38 More in Gaming
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11:45:06 04/30/12
P0325 Knock Sensor Diagnosis
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P0325 Knock Sensor Diagnosis
Visit me at: www.ericthecarguy.com Wells website www.wellsve.com Wells YouTube (great videos I recommend you subscribe) www.youtube.com As you can see by the title this video covers the diagnosis and repair of a P0325 on my 1997 Subaru Legacy L model with 2.2L engine backed by an auto trans. I did have some trouble with the 'factory' diagnostic procedure but thankfully my friend Mark at Wells Electronics had a test that involved a voltage drop across the sensor that worked perfectly. I hope this video illustrates the import ants of understanding a circuit that you're diagnosing as opposed to just throwing parts at something, with a little time and effort you can do a proper diagnosis.Stay dirty ETCG Due to factors beyond the control of EricTheCarGuy, it cannot guarantee against unauthorized modifications of this information, or improper use of this information. EricTheCarGuy assumes no liability for property damage or injury incurred as a result of any of the information contained in this video. EricTheCarGuy recommends safe practices when working with power tools, automotive lifts, lifting tools, jack stands, electrical equipment, blunt instruments, chemicals, lubricants, or any other tools or equipment seen or implied in this video. Due to factors beyond the control of EricTheCarGuy, no information contained in this video shall create any express or implied warranty or guarantee of any particular result. Any injury, damage or loss that may result from improper use of ... From: EricTheCarGuy Views: 12252 480 ratings Time: 21:53 More in Autos & Vehicles
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19:34:00 04/29/12
RnRTV #286: Busy Dave Grohl and Ray Charles Foundation Suing!
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Rock n Roll TV is for you, the rockers, the misfits, the miscreants and the mavericks. This week - Ray Charles Foundation is suing Ray's kids; Former Korn drummer pulled over; Dave Grohl is so busy and more!
Before he died, Ray Charles gave each of his children $500,000 with the stipulation that they would not go after any parts of his estate. That included copyrights to his music which are owned by the Ray Charles Foundation. Now the Foundation is suing seven of Ray's kids saying that they violated the written agreement by trying to get copyright of 51 of Ray's songs including I Got A Woman and A Fool For You.
Former Korn drummer David Silveria was pulled over for driving… while too tired! It was a Sunday morning and the cops pulled him over after he rear ended another car on his way to breakfast. The cops gave him a breathalyzer which he blew a 0.0 but they nailed him over a sleeping pill he'd taken the night before.
Former Celebrity Rehab star Shifty Shellshock has come out of a coma and is expected to make a full recovery.
Public Image Ltd are releasing their first new album in 20 years next month titled This Is Pil.
Former Pantera bassist Rex Brown reportedly owes Uncle Sam just under half million bucks in back taxes and penalties.
Marilyn Manson's press agent sent out a message simply stating Marilyn Manson is NOT engaged.
WHATEVER:
Golf champ Bubba Watson is BFF's with Justin Bieber.
Rihanna went topless under a waterfall in Hawaii!
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Dave Grohl is super busy these days. Not only did he go into the studio with Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic and producer Butch Vig and a special mystery guest… but he's also been busy making a documentary about the legendary recording studio in LA where Nirvana laid down tracks for the classic album Nevermind … Sound City.
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14:30:23 04/29/12
Parting Shot - No Title For Spurs
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Parting Shot - No Title For Spurs
Israel Gutierrez hates to burst the bubble of Spurs fans but he doesn't think this year's team is championship material. From: ESPN Views: 738 48 ratings Time: 01:04 More in Sports
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19:09:10 04/26/12
Book Reveals Plot to Undermine Obama Presidency
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A new book by Robert Draper titled “Do No Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives” describes a meeting between powerful members of Congress that hatched a plan to oppose any policy presented by the Obama White House.
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01:08:52 04/26/12
Harold Bloom: Why There Is No Walt Whitman Stamp
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In a talk about the works of Walt Whitman, renowned literary critic Harold Bloom digresses about why Whitman wasn't honored with a postage stamp.
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2012/03/19/Harold_Bloom_Criticism_and_Self-Influence
Titled "Criticism and Self-Influence," focusing on his readings of Whitman in his first lecture and of Shakespeare in his second, these lectures are contributions to Bloom's intellectual biography. They will give a sense of how Harold Bloom reads, what stirs his mind, what he looks for, and what he projects on a text. With so impressive a list of works to his credit, Bloom will assess not only his impact on the world of literary criticism, but also his vision as a man of letters who has taught us how to think about that one subject that will always challenge our ability to think: art.
Harold Bloom is a Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than thirty books include The Best Poems of the English Language, The Art of Reading Poetry, and The Book of J. He is a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including the Academy's Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism, the International Prize of Catalonia, and the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico.
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00:37:23 04/26/12
Two Titles Getting Game Of The Year Editions - Press Pause Daily
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A Caped crusader and a dashing adventurer are getting the game of the year treatment.
SHOW NOTES:
Story 1:
As we mentioned in the intro, two games from last year are getting the game of the year treatment.
First up is the highly acclaimed Batman: Arkham City.
It will hit North American shelves on May 29th and feature:
The game itself along with all of the released DLC. That includes all of the Batman skins, as well as the Nightwing and Robin packs, the Catwoman story pack, and a large list of Challenge maps.
It also features a download an Xbox Live or PSN download of the Batman: Year One animated movie.
A brand new 2-hour DLC will also release along with this new edition called Harley Quinn's Revenge which will feature both Batman and Robin as they face off against the Joker’s right hand gal as she tries to "shut the gates on the urban mega-prison forever."
Harley Quinn's Revenge will be available to owners of the original release of the game as well. Just in case you needed another excuse to go back and crack some skulls as the Dark Knight.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/more-harley-quinn-coming-to-batman-arkham-city/4099/
Story 2:
The other game getting the game of the year treatment is another game that received a lot of accolades: Uncharted 3.
According to Eurogamer, Uncharted 3: Game of the Year Edition will be making its way to Europe, though no date has been released so far.
This release will package the game along with all 14 DLC packs that have been released so far including:
All 3 Classic Skins Packs which feature character skins for characters from both of the first 2 games.
The Multiplayer Accessory Pack which lets you play as the Capture Trooper from Killzone 3
Both Flashback Map Packs, which like the Classic Skin Pack, will include 8 multiplayer maps based on levels from Uncharted 1 and 2.
And of course there is the ever popular Doughnut Skin Pack which will let you play as 5 of the main characters if they let themselves get REALLY fat.
All of that is available and that is just scratching the surface. As of now this is only for Europe, but there will no doubt be a similar North American release as well.
If you haven’t played Uncharted 3 yet, then what the hell is wrong with you. You now have no excuse to not pick this game up.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-04-24-uncharted-3-drakes-deception-game-of-the-year-edition-announced
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