Donald Trump is going start a Trade War.

Being a Canadian, I love my US brothers and sisters.  We're not going to follow you into rash action all the time because we have our own minds and sometimes we think you are acting fucking stupid.  

Electing this guy as leader of your country?

Was Fucking Stupid.  Here's your Helmet, Brother:

Donald Trump is a wrecking ball.  He is everything a President SHOULDN'T BE.  The wealth of evidence was there before he took office and it's tenfold now of how who he is doesn't fit the role!  This isn't about "Acting".  I don't care if he "Acts" like George Washington or Gilbert Gottfried just so long as he was an effective administrator.  This is about character.  Donald Trump is wicked shy-sty.  It's there...it's ALL THERE!   You just have to open your eyes and look.  

Now Donald Trump has started a trade war with Canada, Mexico and the EU.  The thing is that no one ever "Wins" a trade war.  It damages long term relationships and imposes administratively costly fees (that is fees that require costly management to impose).  

Thanks to Donald Trump, the US is making enemies out of long term friends.  Vladimir Putin is laughing his ass off.  

That Donald Trump thinks he is entitled to a bigger share of the money made on Free Trade is natural.  He's an old rich kid.  His sense of entitlement is VERY well developed.  He figures that, like the business contracts that he screws over due to his being able to afford better lawyers and keep it in court, he can use the US economy as leverage to get what he wants internationally.  The problem is that other countries won't go for it...and they have a choice.  The only thing he is going to succeed in doing is to piss people off and make enemies.  Everyone's goods will cost more in the US as well as other countries.  This all comes from Donny's deluded thought that ALL money made on free trade should belong to the US.  To him, money made by another country benefiting from Free Trade is money HE'S not MAKING; therefore is a "Loss".  Think about it.  How can you lose money by buying your goods at the best price you can find?  Who the fuck believes this idiot!?  Helmet Time!

The arbitrary decision to take an additional 25% of OUR MONEY has been met with resistance and a counter attack.  What?  Did you think that we would just let Donald Trump take our money?  Learn some history.  Canadians are meek and mild on the surface but we are fucking fierce.  

Donny tried to steal our lunch money and Justin punched him in the nose right away.  It's the only way to treat a bully.  A Trade War has started and EVERYONE loses.  Donald Trump is the worst President you have ever had.  He will tell you that he is the best.  It's in his nature to do so.  

US and Canadian citizens are suffering enough from just daily expenses.  Now we all have to pay more and who knows how long the situation is going to take to get back to normal.   

What next?  Canadian Aluminum and Steel from "Jyna".  Most people around the world already hate the US enough.  What do you suppose this is going to do?  

In Canada we are getting up to 36000 illegal immigrants from the US a WEEK!   Maybe WE should build a WALL.  

I task every person in the US that didn't vote for Trump to grab someone who did, shake the fuck out of them and tell them to wake the fuck up!

Roseanne Barred

Back in the 90's, I was "Who is this large mean woman and who thought the stuff she said was actually funny enough to have given her a show?".  I watched several episodes at different times to see if any of it caught on...it never did.  Add to that was the fact that I really disliked Roseanne personally.  The way she threw her emotional weight around like the female versn of a Little-man complex.

Not that long ago, it was announced that they are bringing Roseanne back...and she is also a Trump supporter (both the character and the real person).  Trump supporters are idiots.  The evidence of what he said and did is public record but he will smile and call it 'Fake News' in  his charismatic folksy manner and these folk will turn from fact and continue living in fantasy.

The 'Mean Tweet' from Roseanne about Valerie Jarrett looking like what would happen if the Muslim Brotherhood and The Planet of the Apes had a baby.  My first thought was:  "Of course she would say that.  She would absolutely say that.  Not only that, given her lack of imagination, she probably would have used that joke repeatedly because you can fit in 3 of just about anything.  It's the same "Joke" kids used to use in High School...and it wasn't really funny then either...just mean...and immature.  This coming from a woman that thought singing the national anthem off key in front of millions was hilarious.  Then she grabbed her twat and flipped the crowd off for good measure.  Roseanne is the mother of the 'Shock Value' not funny Jokes that gave rise to such "Comedians" as Will Ferrell and influences culture today.  A whole generation learned that laughter was being flashed grandma's tits (as in Something about Mary) was humor.  Roseanne's entitled shameless immaturity was vaunted as 'Bold'.  Madonna defended her but she is a shameless no-class bitch herself.
 
Madonna shaped the music industry by getting away with damn near sex on camera so as to sell her  music.  She was the first to take things as far as she did.  This leading to almost every female recording artist would objectify their own looks to sell their music and videos.  A whole generation of young women would identify with this as 'The New Culture'. The Slut Culture. 

Now, in the aftermath of that, we have the #MeToo movement.  That's another story all together. 

Now Roseanne is cut from her own show because, after how many years on TV initially, and a return to it (almost unheard of) someone said "Hey!  She said something racist.  Maybe Roseanne isn't a nice person after all.  Gee what was your first clue!?
 
Now she is all apologetic.  Saying that she "made a mistake and it wasn't her intention to make anyone feel uncomfortable".    I don't doubt she's feeling sorry but 99% for herself.  She has to manage the situation or, rather, her publicist does.  Maybe call in a few favors from up high to help 'Give it a spin'.  I guarantee that if left to her own devices, '93 would have been "Roseanne who?  oh that idiot who killed the national anthem thinking it was funny.  I heard she is living in a trailor park in Tuscon."

I don't think Roseanne should be giving ANYONE grief on how they look.  Honestly, I can't seem to find anything good to say about her.  She has no acting talent.  She isn't funny.  She isn't very pretty. Her voice is like 2 crows surfing down an icy aluminum banister.  She's a mean, no talent cunt with delusions of superiority.  Actually, I can find something nice to say.  Despite all that she is, she has made a name for herself on TV.  Maybe, in those early years, her one skill was that she owned a Polaroid and knew how to use it.

Great Games - Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines

This Series of blogs titled 'Great Games' will feature reviews on games which, though may even be buggy and severely flawed, have features which elevate them to an epic level.

Today we look at 'Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines'.  I'll try to keep it clean but there may be spoilers.

In 2001, Troika Games teamed up with 'WhiteWolf''s RPG and started work on this masterpiece cult classic game.  The 3 heavy hitters of the computer RPG world; the power players from the excellent Fallout series (1&2):  Jason Anderson, Tim Cain, and Leonard Boyarski were at the heart of it.  Troika consisted of 32 people all busting their asses to make the best computer RPG ever made.  That was the goal, anyway...and it had heart.

Troika attempted to add code to Valve's unfinished source engine (the finished one was used in Half-Life 2).  That is where most of the bugs happened.

Ideas flourished while those in the trenches with blowtorches and wrenches (metaphoric) struggled to catch up.  Eventually, David Mullich was hired as a game producer and said 'I know you want the moon and the stars but the budget says you need to start trimming and get a game out or all this code and media goes the way of 'Duke Nukem Forever'...and Troika with it.  DNF had been scrapped twice(?) even by that time.

Even with the cuts, and a little sneeking a peek at Valves code improvements, in November 2004 Activision released the most bug filled RPG ever...competing against (ironically) Half-Life 2.  Doom 3 and Quake 4 came out around that time.  Gamers, who only had a limited amount of money, had to make a choice.  What VtMB had that those other games didn't was heart.  The Soundtrack and ambient sounds were amazing.  Choices and variety of characters?  Awesome!  Dialogue options and individual experience.  Superb!  Combat wasn't anything special except that you could use abilities and essentially spells to make that a unique and fun experience.

So loved was VtMB by the users that they started supporting it well after Troika went belly up (2005).  Troika went broke because they over extended themselves and the returns from sales of this game weren't enough to bring them back.  They were dropped onto the market at the same time as Valve's Half-Life 2 (Some would say this was Valve's intention in response to the 'Stolen' code) and HL2 squashed them in sales.  HL2 was big budget and ran like a well oiled machine compared to VtMB.  Having over extended themselves in this project and sales not compensating for it, the company folded.  It's a damn shame.  We could really use more of this sort of game now! Yet, with more people comes less creative control and the heart can get lost.  There are examples where, even though the business is big, the heart is still there (Far Cry 3 is one example) but it is rare. 

I originally picked it up at a sale on STEAM in 2011 for about $5.  This game has provided me with at least 20 times that in value.  Even now, the objects sometime don't work so well with the environment...or the sprites forget themselves and you find a chair where the door knob is supposed to be.  Just smile and sigh...save and do a restart of the game.

"I can't tonight, hon...Copper, Julius, E, Lilly and Rosa are having a party down by the pier"

Difficulty?  the game is hard enough made more so in the fact that hard choices need to be made early "Do I take an extra point in Strength or buff out my persuasion skill for a test that I know to be coming up?".  This game seems more like comfort food for the haggard gamer.  I was just playing Just Cause 3 before and the guy was surfing a plane while firing an RPG7 at ground targets.  I think I rolled my eyes so hard they actually made a sound!  I thought there would be a choice?  No choice... point and click...and I felt my brain die by the second of this non sense.  This game - the guy has a grappling hook mechanism in his arm.  You can launch yourself to the top of a ten story building in a second...guess what?  if a person actually had this?  Their arm would get there but that's it.  Everything is all super sized and stupid now.  It's funny how an old game about vampires seems more physically realistic than a new game about regular people.  

I enjoy a game where I have to earn being a major badass...not one where it is given to me.  VtMB does that.  The success of this game 'In the wash' has not gone unnoticed.  Paradox games acquired the rights to it in 2015 following their purchase of White Wolf.  They will work on a new project when the time is right.  Could this be a new game of the ages?  When the stupid 'Supersize' bullshit wears off and people realize that you can't fall 10 stories without going 'SPLAT!'.  A game with Troika imagination and the backing to kick it into gear.  The mind reels.  I do love the thought though.

 

Dear Millennials

Dear Millennials,

You are miserable.  The reason?  You believe that life should be easy;  That the goal is to make all things you desire within reach.  Given how you have been raised, I can see how you would believe this to be the way of things.  It’s a lie.  Life is supposed to be hard.  That’s the point of it. 

• 1.       You desire
• 2.       You work hard/smart
• 3.       You Might get what you desire
• 4.       Rinse and repeat.

The feeling of achievement has come easily for you.  Your ‘Sports Days’ come with Participation Awards.  The computer games with all their achievements, Social Media, powerful cell phones.  You get a steady stream of dopamine.   That happy brain drug is so available in such a variety of convenience. 

If something feels good then why not do it?  Why work so hard for something you only might get when a sure happy feeling is waiting for you at the press of a button?  It’s chemistry and it makes sense.

The problem is that you are tricking your own mind to release a drug that is meant to reward you for a real world accomplishment.  You are, essentially, Dopamine junkies.  In this way, it is no different than sitting around masturbating all day.

This is the real damage of computer games.  Not the sex.  Not the violence.  It’s the ease at which one can receive gratification for something that really doesn’t matter.

Millennials;  Your parents fucked you over by doing too much for you.  They felt that by doing so much for you, that you would see how much they cared.  But they were ‘Care taking’ you.  

You have to own your own life now.  Do for yourself.  Eventually they won’t be able to look after you and you will be a 50 year old douche who can’t do shit for himself.  

From their retirement home, with failing bodies and feeble minds, your parents will watch you and everything they built for you fall apart.  They busted their asses to keep you comfortable but really only enabled your addiction. 

Now go out and take charge of your life.  Don’t go out and bemoan the mountain that you haven’t climbed yet.  Feel the satisfaction of every step forward.  Revel in defeating impulses in order to move to a greater goal.  You do this and you are no longer playing the game…you’re in it

North Korea - could they be any more stupid?

Kim Jong Un can't run a proper economy.  He fills his country with outrageous propaganda and throws his willingness to use his nukes on other countries around like the insecure fat stupid fuck that he is.  

If Kim Jong Un launches anything at anyone then I'll put a bullet in his stupid fat head myself.  With the size of his noggin I could probably do it from a mile away. When I see a ten year old singing perfectly about the glory and pride of a nuclear missile ... then I know shit is going Perfectly wrong.  His army marches with steps of anger at what is perceived to be a threat.  What they don't realize is that their leader can only be useful to the country by his ability to be threatening to other countries in order to force concessions from them.  In other words; Kim Jong Un is a bully.  I have no problem with Donald Trump standing up to him (Though I sure the fuck hope he has effective anti missile systems to back himself up!).  You have to face down a bully...or he's going to keep taking your lunch money.  I care for people.  I care for all the North Koreans.  If I had my way I would go there and hug everyone I could...though I'm not American.  I would welcome a Korean family to stay in my home and treat them to my cooking.  We're all the same.  We're all essentially family on this earth.  

This isn't the first time that a leader has used propaganda to control the emotions of the people.  It has happened before and it didn't  go so well:

This is what isolation and propaganda will do to a people who have been beset by hard times.  

Who gave N.Korea nuclear technology?  The Soviets in 1956.  
  
Who gave the Soviets nuclear technology?  Julius and Ethel Rosenberg...both executed for treason in '53.  It's because of these two fuck faces that the contents of Pandora's box reached every corner of the planet.  They are buried at Wellwood Cemetery in Farmingdale, NY.  If am down that way I'll go pay my respects after drinking a ton of water.

North Korea has been feeding themselves crazy for years.  This has to stop.  The very least is that The Fat Fuck will keep setting off nuclear explosions irradiating the planet.  The worst?  everyone is dead or dying; global collapse.  'Climate Change' is the soft word; it doesn't get any softer.  The proper term should be 'Fucking the planet so hard that it looks like Venus and we all have to eek out an existence in inverted ovens'.  Nuclear explosions may be fun to watch like really big fireworks but only one who is completely deluded would think of them as such.  This guy is an irrational toddler playing with yours and everyone else's future.  N. Korea; Please strap this guy to a nuclear missile and launch it into the Sun and you will see that we really are, in fact, on your side AND our own.  

Roger Stone - An Idiot Savant for the Devil's own Skills

Roger Stone is an amazing Bullshit artist...but an idiot none-the-less.  Who could have gotten a misogynistic, racist, narcissist (who has a remarkable ability to put his foot in his mouth every time he says anything) elected?  Simply put, the Renoir - da Vinci - Dali of pure BS.  This guy isn't just an artist...he is one of the great masters.  With skills like these, he could practically have put a hamster in the big chair!  

Yet...did he really think this one through?  He has Grand Children.  He might not give a fuck about the world as is quite apparent in his actions but does he really want to have his great Grand Children growing up in a radioactive hell because he wanted to elect a big man-baby to a position allowing that man to have his finger on the big red button!?  This is what happens when your ego is so large that you can't see past it.



Back in Grade 1, Roger Stone did a bit of a social experiment on his classmates.  They were having a mock election between JFK and Nixon.  Roger actively campaigned against Nixon saying that one of his new initiatives would be to have school on a Saturday.  This rumor spread like wildfire.  It was the first in a long line of massive BS. 

In his Senior Year, he maneuvered the least popular guy in school to run against him. 

He became a good buddy of Richard M. Nixon.  That's his tattoo on his back.  The former president, of course known for the infamous Watergate scandal.  The tattoo symbolizes the idea of never giving up, even in the face of a massive loss...oblivious to the evil that it represents.  Not many people realize that Nixon used tactics to delay peace in Vietnam so that Hubert Humphrey would be tripped up on the issue for the '68 election.  How many people died for Nixon to be president by delaying the end of a senseless war!?  After the election, the peace talks had already failed...and the US was there for 5 more years!  5 years of people dying.   

This idiot has a fucking tattoo of Nixon!?  That's sort of like getting a tattoo of Hitler because you respect his passion!

Roger Stone fought in Vietnam.  Oh!  Sorry!  That was an 'Alternate Fact'.  He actually stayed home finding new ways to ruin the country his fellow man was dying for.  Actually, he has a rare defect of being born without a conscience.  That's why he looks like he doesn't have a frontal lobe...the reptilian absorbed it.

Donald Trump was an officer cadet in '64.  He couldn't go to Vietnam because he had a 'Bone Spur' in his foot.  It apparently went straight up to his ass since he couldn't take a desk job in the Armed Forces either.  He did, however, enjoy dancing all night at clubs.  I guess he only danced on one foot.  Poor Donald!  

Back to Roger....
  
There is a documentary on Roger Stone on Netflix.  I don't feel like getting into every heinous thing this man did in print.  Lets just say it's worth a 'Look See'.  It's about 2 hours long.  The man wears his infamy like a robe and crown. 

Now we are faced with a REAL threat.  A world leader who idolizes STALIN!!!  

"You Talkin' to me!?"

...and one who uses nukes like fireworks and threatens to use them on everyone

"I don't have a small penis...I have a big missile"

Who do we have to stand up to him?  A strong world leader?  What do you think!? 

Thanks a lot Roger Stone. 

The latest US Presidential was a culmination of all things 'Roger Stone'.  Stone is of the belief that he didn't do anything wrong as he was simply operating within the workable limits of a flawed system.  Technically, however, how many counts of Slander (at his rallies) and Libel (in his book) should have landed him in the can?

Why? He's connected up the wazoo and has the best lawyers in the land.  He's practically untouchable.

Both Trump and Reagan got his support.  He didn't even change the fucking slogan "Make America Great Again!"

He didn't even change his client's angle with the young white voters:  'You have been marginalized and now I'm here to get you great jobs and fight for your future'... You see these poor bastards down on the streets - angry for their situation and glad that someone recognizes their plight - so much so that they fail to see how badly they are being manipulated.  Why?  Stone did it to mock the system.  He's like The Joker from Batman.  He's a Brilliant Evil Genius.

How to deal with Roger Stone

If Roger Stone tells you he saw something walking back from the corner store... you:

a) wonder if he was driving

b) wonder if there even was a store

c) wonder if his eyes were even open

d) wonder if he could even walk that day

e) Know that it is a lie and then ask yourself 'What does he want from me?'

f) All the above!

g) I believe everything a 50-year-career-liar tells me!

49% of Americans chose 'g'. 

 How did this happen?  Because US citizens believe themselves to be inherently superior to anyone else on the planet.  It's what makes them so popular abroad.  When what is perceived to be a 'Gut feeling' gets ahead of actual information then one pooches it this bad.  USA: You paid a high price for this lesson.  For the love of God ...please learn it!

Stone isn't the problem.  He is actually giving the American public a gift in being honest about what he has been able to accomplish in a corrupt system.  It may be right to view his tactics as an object lesson.  

People who believe Stone and fall for Stone-like tactics ARE the problem.  There will always be another Stone (and the next one might not be so overt) - so get wise.  

USA: you were drinking alone, someone slipped something bad into your drink and you woke up in some bed with no clothes and a sore ass.  Seriously wise TF up.  The world is watching and you don't look so 'Superior' anymore. 

BC Liberals; The Right Wing needs to get clipped

Do you ever wonder what happens when people don't think enough about who they are voting in?  When they just follow the dogma of commercial popularity without really thinking about it.

This is the Fraser River at New Westminster.  The city is mostly built on a slope at the bend of the River.  There was a park at Ash near Gloucester that one could sit on a bench at the North side of this park and watch the Fraser to the South and West without obstruction.

That view has had this...

done to it.  This is a few years old...so it's much worse now.  
This is the tip of the iceberg.  Most of Vancouver's major streets have become a parking lot during the day.  Condos are everywhere, and yet there is still a 'Housing Shortage'.

The previous BC Liberal leader Gordon Campbell instituted draconian reforms designed to attack the poor and the weak.  He gave those who could swing a hammer a job to build these eye-sores and gave everyone else the finger.  His attacks on social programs actually killed people.  Cuts to welfare and advocacy programs.  People who couldn't get a job were tossed out into the streets because they couldn't pay their meager rent...for the kind of place you would expect to get for $300 a month.  Oh...and the first thing this amazing human being did was to give himself and his cronies a raise just to twist that knife in.  He should have been fired; (and by which I mean to preface with 'doused with gas and lit on'...)

 Okay...so Draconian measure to get the Province back on track, right?  So...somehow the Liberals get in and there is this flood in demand for 'More Housing'.  Shit!?  How did that happen!?  A Change in Political Party somehow produces a massive spike in population gain!?  No.  The "BC Liberal" party is so in bed with the land developers AND foreign real estate investors AND foreign rich pricks with fist fulls of cash.  They couched it in terms of 'Providing Jobs'.  Yes...you will have the opportunity to swing a hammer for your corporate overlords until you get Carpo Tunnel Syndrome where you will make your masters a ton of money and barely have enough to pay your rent.  You will never be able to afford the properties you are building...that money goes into someone elses pockets...someone with lily white hands...someone who hasn't worked hard in his whole damn life!  His family will be kept in the lap of luxury for the next 200 years for what they pulled over on you.  You, on the other hand, just want to make sure your kids can keep a roof over their heads in the next 10 years.

The problem is that their greed is unsustainable.  Selling Vancouver by the inches can never really be a Renewable Resource.  You're not creating 'Long Term' Solutions.  This is short sighted thinking.  They are robbing the People's bank with smiles, statistics and 'we're supposed to be here' and giving it all to the rich.  Is this 'Tricklenomics?'  Because I know exactly what's trickling down and it isn't money.  Who is going to be paying for it?  The people.  The average hard-working people are going to be paying for some rich crook and his fancy antics...for generations.

Highly charismatic developer, philanthropist and patron of the arts for which he was awarded Order_of_British_Columbia.  His charitable contributions and efforts awarded him  Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal and Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.  He only started selling Condo's in 1990 and was so good at it that by 2002 his donations (Very Tax Deductible) were enough to get him an award by the Queen in 2002!!!  That's how much money is actually going to the top!!!  His Generosity seems supreme to us down here in the trenches...but, to him, it's a tax deduction and a PR move.  $26 Million is his Tax Deduction!!!  Yes...we're talking about 

Bob ('I can't believe he's not gay') Rennie.  

Now Bob has a great personality...actually he's got several:  My favorite is the bumbling nervous accountant when he wants to quote numbers that are inaccurate (because who would ever question a socially awkward accountant of being nefarious).  Christie Clark got all of her Real Estate Board information this way.  "There's only 5% foreign buyers!".  A tax of 15% on Foreign buyers lowers sales by 40%.  Huh?  It's almost like he lied. 

You could swing a hammer for a million years and you will never get an award by the queen.  Exploit millions and donate to charity your 'Tax Deduction' and you're a fucking hero!


To add insult to injury, you will be TAXED TO PAY FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT THESE DEVELOPERS DON'T PAY ENOUGH FOR!!!

If we could tear off the layers of bureaucracy, all of this crap is to basically make you a slave without you realizing it.

Now, 2017, with the writing on the wall...some 'Mysterious group shows up with their $100,000,000 ad campaign to besmirch the NDP.   'Future Prosperity for BC'

This is a tiny portion of the money you made for these fuckers.  This is how they keep their golden ticket.  You should be offended by this. They've exploited you and are now rubbing it in your face. 

If you are dumb enough to vote for these fuckers then you are licking their shit off the sidewalk and are too God Damn LAZY to open your fucking eyes to realize it.

It makes me upset; the kind of monsters that can operate above the law while being nefarious in nature and deed.  I honestly don't know how capable the NDP really is as a governing body but I do know how the BC Liberals have advocated only for the rich...and, by default, screwed everyone else.  Greater Vancouver is a mess not because the BC Liberal Party can't do a good job if they wanted to.  They just don't want to.  They are just like lawyers and only represent those who pay and support them - their Clients: The rich.  After 16 years of pulling the wool over everyone's eyes - they have to go.  At the very least it is an exercise in Democracy.  It's a way for us to say "We were all supposed to be your clients - get the fuck out!"  

Lets face it, guys; The BC Liberals are just Uber SoCreds with a stolen party title.  We can't be fooled again.

   'Future Prosperity for BC' is nothing more than a bunch of rich cunts who like having Sellouts in Government like the "honorable" Gordon Campbell... and Christy Clark; a woman who looks best and most natural in pictures with her mouth open.  

You have to wonder how much money these 'Bottom Liners' are making off of the BC Liberals that they can drop that much and consider it 'Money well spent'.

While you are sitting in traffic with your 'Transportation Mortgage'...consider this:   They've attacked the weak and the poor.  They've attacked the working class.  They attack non-land owners.  Who is next on their list?  I know you have time to think about it on your 2 hour each way commute.