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So ya, I'll be on TV. Watch Canadain news and look for the torch relay. Hopefully I don't trip or set myself on fire.....

Call of Duty Modern Warfare Gun Sounds 2
Well as if one is not enough, I was obbessed with using my new knowledge to make a new and better video. Well this came up. (will be on the audio portal later)

Call of Duty Modern Warfare Gun Sounds
The first gun sounds remix i have ever made. It should be uploaded to the audio portal later but head over to youtube if you want to see it now. Like I said, it is my first so please be nice when reviewing, but do suggest ideas so I may improve!!!! Hope you all Enjoy!!!!

Those who get this right get a cake. The Question? Why?

If your a Candian, you should surely know that Canada is becoming a good place to get stabbed. Turns out numerous cities such as Edmonton, Vancover etc are becoming breeding grounds for people who just seem to see the need to kill one another. What I find more funny is the fact that Canada's gun act, etc seem's to be making the problem WORSE..... Like who shoul'nt have seen this coming? You take a Glock from some gangsta and you think he'll go suck his thumb? No, he will go to go to his local Wal-mart or Safeway and buy a steak knife for 10 bucks.... Whats funny here.... The fact that its cheaper to kill someone with a knife, or that our leaders are now now sitting here dumbfounded that people are still dying.... I honestly do not know....

You all stay safe now

You know, regardless if it is unheathly or not, Pot could bring us out of a reccession if it was made legal :)
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Taxing pot could become a political toking point
An Assemblyman from San Francisco argues that it's time to tax and regulate the state's biggest cash crop in the same manner as alcohol. Opponents say it would create new costs for society.
By Eric Bailey
6:04 PM PST, February 23, 2009
Reporting from Sacramento -- Could Cannabis sativa be a salvation for California's fiscal misfortunes? Can the state get a better budget grip by taxing what some folks toke?

An assemblyman from San Francisco announced legislation Monday to do just that: make California the first state in the nation to tax and regulate recreational marijuana in the same manner as alcohol.

Buoyed by the widely held belief that cannabis is California's biggest cash crop, Assemblyman Tom Ammiano contends it is time to reap some state revenue from that harvest while putting a damper on drug use by teens, cutting police costs and even helping Mother Nature.

"I know the jokes are going to be coming, but this is not a frivolous issue," said Ammiano, a Democrat elected in November after more than a dozen years as a San Francisco supervisor. "California always takes the lead -- on gay marriage, the sanctuary movement, medical marijuana."

Anti-drug groups are anything but amused by the idea of California collecting a windfall from the leafy herb that remains illegal under federal law.

"This would open another door in Pandora's box," said Calvina Fay, executive director of Save Our Society From Drugs. "Legalizing drugs like this would create a whole new set of costs for society."

Ammiano's measure, AB 390, would essentially replicate the regulatory structure used for beer, wine and hard liquor, with taxed sales barred to anyone under 21.

He said it would actually boost public safety, keeping law enforcement focused on more serious crimes while keeping marijuana away from teenagers who can readily purchase black-market pot from peers.

The natural world would benefit, too, from the uprooting of environmentally destructive backcountry pot plantations that denude fragile ecosystems, Ammiano said.

But the biggest boon might be to the bottom line. By some estimates, California's pot crop is a $14-billion industry, putting it above vegetables ($5.7 billion) and grapes ($2.6 billion). If so, that could mean upward of $1 billion in tax revenue for the state each year.

"Having just closed a $42-billion budget deficit, generating new revenue is crucial to the state's long-term fiscal health," said Betty Yee, the state Board of Equalization chairwoman who appeared with Ammiano at a San Francisco news conference.

Also in support of opening debate on the issue are San Francisco Sheriff Mike Hennessey and retired Orange County Superior Court Judge James Gray, a longtime legalization proponent.

"I'm a martini guy myself," Ammiano said. "But I think it's time for California to . . . look at this in a truly deliberative fashion."

He sees the possibility of an eventual truce in the marijuana wars with Barack Obama now in the White House.

A White House spokesman declined to discuss Ammiano's legislation, instead pointing to a transition website that says the president "is not in favor of the legalization of marijuana."

Several cities in California and around the nation have adopted laws making marijuana the lowest law enforcement priority, including Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, Denver and Seattle. Oakland went even further in 2004, requiring pot to be taxed if it is legalized.

But where Ammiano sees taxes, pot foes see trouble.

They say easier access means more problems with drug dependency among adults, heavier teen use and an increase in driving while high.

"If we think the drug cartels are going to tuck their tails between their legs and go home, I think we're badly mistaken," Fay said. "They're going to heavily target our children."

The average person fires his lazer over 9000 times a day......

Ya, life is boring right now.......

From http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandi dateFeed2/idUSLF665578

"Check this out!!!!"

BEIRUT, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The hurling of shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush on his farewell visit to Iraq strikes many in the Middle East as a fittingly furious comment on what they see as his calamitous legacy in the region.

Arab and Iranian TV stations have gleefully replayed the clip, sometimes in slow motion, of an Iraqi reporter calling Bush a "dog" and throwing his shoes at him -- the Middle East's tastiest insults -- at a Baghdad news conference on Sunday.

The affront was a twisted echo of the triumphal moment for Bush when joyous Iraqis used their footwear to beat a statue of Saddam Hussein toppled by U.S. invading troops in 2003.

"It indicates how much antagonism he's been able to create in the whole region," former Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher told Reuters, adding that the incident was regrettable.

Bush had harmed America's reputation and the friendship many had felt for it. "Despite past mistakes in its policies, there was always a redeeming factor. In this particular case, there doesn't seem to have ever been a redeeming factor," Maher said.

Muntazer al-Zaidi, who works for independent al-Baghdadiya television, has shot to local stardom for his attack on Bush and his cry: "This is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog."

He has also won instant fame abroad -- a poem on an Islamist website praises him as "a hero with a lion's heart" -- although the Iraqi government slated his "barbaric and ignominious act".

Zaidi's crude public display of disdain for an incumbent U.S. president hit a chord with many in the Middle East.

"The Iraqi journalist is a true and free Baghdadi," said a Saudi private sector employee who gave his name as Abu Faisal. "He was brave and did us proud. Bush destroyed (Iraq) so surely he deserved to be beaten with a shoe".

Khalid al-Dakhil, a Saudi university lecturer in social politics, said the incident summed up Bush's impact on the Middle East, which "will haunt this region for a long time".

Dakhil, who said Bush had committed war crimes in Iraq after launching a war based on "lies" that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction, nevertheless fretted about the shoe-throwing.

"While understandable, it wasn't the most sophisticated and constructive way to express one's anger at Bush, especially coming from an educated Arab journalist. It reinforces the stereotype ideas in the Western world about Arabs."

Some Palestinians, whose hopes of independent statehood have withered in the eight-year Bush era, relished the moment.

"A shoe company in Hebron claimed the attack on Bush and they will give the attacker shoes all his life," runs one joke being exchanged on mobile telephones in the Gaza Strip.

"LEGACY OF DISGRACE"

In Iran, under U.S. pressure over its nuclear programme, ordinary people had no good words for the outgoing president.

"He left a legacy of disgrace for America. His name will certainly go down in history and be remembered for all bad things for ever," said pensioner Assadollah Ghorbani, 67.

Parviz Alousi, 59, a former Iranian industry ministry employee, said the Bush had only created problems for the world, which "because of his ego" he had sought to dominate.

Some political analysts in Lebanon took an equally scathing view of Bush's policy record in the region.

"To say disaster is an under-statement. The best thing he can do is exit the White House," said Hilal Khashan, political science professor at the American University of Beirut. "I can't remember a lower point in U.S. prestige abroad."

Arabs have long fumed at American support for Israel in its conflict with the Palestinians, but Bush's war in Iraq created a new source of anger and instability in the Middle East.

"It's a sore, open and bleeding wound, just as the Palestine issue is," said Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, an expert on Hezbollah.

The Iraqi shoe-thrower had found a far more telling protest than raising a banner or poster showing war victims, she argued.

"It's a sign of empowerment. He was saying not only that your (Bush's) legacy is one of disgrace, not only do we see you as lowly, but that we can overpower and defeat you."

Mohammed al-Masri, a researcher at Jordan University's Centre for Strategic Studies, saw the vignette as iconic.

"Arabs will always remember the shoes hurled at Bush as symbolising their deep frustration with his failed policies."

The insult to Bush also embarrassed Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who was standing beside him at the time.

They were marking the recent passage of a security pact that calls for U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq by the end of 2011 -- a major challenge awaiting President-elect Barack Obama.

Many in the Middle East are pinning hopes on the next U.S. president, despite past disappointments.

"Any change appears welcome because we had reached the bottom," said Maher, Egypt's former foreign minister. (Additional reporting by Souhail Karam in Riyadh, Hossein Jaseb in Tehran, Aziz El-Kaissouni in Cairo, Suleiman al-Khalidi in Amman and Inal Ersan in Dubai; Editing by Samia Nakhoul)

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Now help me fix my posting pic and I'll be happy!!!!!! Anyways I am glad to be on the site and finally decided to sign up.(after years of visiting this site) I am planning to get into Machinima and Flash animation so any pointers are welcome. As well I also would like someone to help me find out what kind of programs I would need to make flash vids, so again any help here is greatly appreciated. I would also like to take the time to say that Castle Crashers on the 360 rocked and I am looking forward to another expansion, game, whatever. Lastly, I have to say Thanks to Tom Fulp for what he has done to make this site possible and every other important person I don't know about for entertaining me and my friends for years. I think now it is time to give back!!!!

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