Polititainment: California Politics as a Video Game (XBox voting machines?)

But what is unique about video games is that players are spectators,
manipulators of the simulation and participants at the same time,
controlling image surrogates that represent them on the screen, and
acting in the virtual environment through their surrogate. In their
role as spectators and manipulators, they watch and dominate the
action. In their role as participants, they experience these image
surrogates as an extension, not only of their will, but of their body.
In essence, their body image expands to include the image under their
control, allowing them to take on a virtual presence in the game, as
part of their fictional role.

http://www.transparencynow.com/actout.htm

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"How better to express and abiding hatred of government, any
government, than by sending to Sacramento a robot with a gun?"

Lewis H. Lapham, Harper's Magazine

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My husband's not as stupid as he looks, says Mrs Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger's wife has a message for the women of California.
Her husband is not stupid or sexist.

Shriver, niece of the late John Kennedy, stunned diehard Democrats when
she married the Terminator 17 years ago. Now they are reeling as she
stumps the state for her Republican husband, who is seen as a violent,
macho misogynist by some Californian feminists.

Schwarzenegger's movies are just part of the problem. One film expert
calculates that he slaughtered 191 victims in just five of his most
popular movies, an average of 38.2 each.

Discussing his preferred means of triumph over his robotic female enemy
in Terminator 3, he told Entertainment Weekly: "How many times do you
get away with this - to take a woman, grab her upside down and bury her
face in the toilet bowl."

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/01/1064988272376.html

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Will durst

Q. What's behind the marriage to Maria Shriver?
A. Probably phase one in a genetic experiment to breed a bullet proof
Kennedy.

http://www.willdurst.com/WeeksWorthJJ03.html

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Transcript: Arnold Schwarzenegger Town Hall Meeting

HANNITY: Involving – you had a number of heated exchanges with Arianna
in particular last night. Well, it seemed like she came ready to take
you on. You had one line in the debate, you thought you'd have a
perfect part for her in "Terminator 4."

Now, because of that comment – you may not know this, so we're making
news here – she is urging the women of California not to support you,
and she says this represents what you think of women. And she believes
you were referring to the scene in "Terminator 3 (search)" that showed
a female robot's head in the toilet. That's what she's saying to our
friends in the media that are here with us today. What do you want to
say to that?

SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, I don't know why she picked that scene. I have no
idea. But the fact of the matter is it was a compliment, because in
"Terminator," we always had powerful women. In the first "Terminator"
and in the second one, it was Linda Hamilton who played always the
powerful woman that succeeded.

HANNITY: Right.

SCHWARZENEGGER: And in "Terminator 3," the female terminator was the
most powerful character in the whole movie. So, therefore, in
"Terminator 4," it will continue the trend. So, it actually was a
compliment. If she takes it the wrong way, it's not my fault.

HANNITY: OK. All right.

(APPLAUSE)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,98352,00.html

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http://www.algonet.se/~ricste/relax.mov