As much as Oblivion rocks and looks amazing. We're still seeing Bethesda's weakness when it comes to animation dampening the experience.

Overall the animation is poor, but the real salt in the wound is the 4 legged animals, in the E3 footage they simply turn around on the spot - I had hoped this would be fixed, but after seeing new footage showing horses. It's not.

Kameo showed what good animation can do for a game - it makes it look believable and real, seeing a horse turn on the spot while doing the regular walking animation blows the experience.

Bethesda please hire some more animators to patch up animation as much as possible for the first expansion. It's just gutting for such an awesome game to have such a tiny flaw that sticks out so much.

Give this a look at.

Leaning against a set of pillars that he knew would kill scores of innocent people, Samson's last prayer was that G-d would let him die along with his enemy. His prayer was answered and Samson, along with over three thousand people, more than died on 9/11, perished in a single act of violence.

We, just like the Islamists, celebrate our favorite martyr - suicide terrorist - Samson. He is the poster boy for manly strength. We name luggage, weightlifting competitions and hair restoration products after him.

It has come to my attention that many staff within Wilkinson are being poorly treated by management, bullying, reduced pay and deliberate non-flexible hours and are being used against staff; who also have evidence of management sexism and racism. Wilkinson's abuses against the working masses shall be noted.

Boycott Wilkinson and to the comrades inside, bring it down through strike action.

Bullying people out of a job by management is not acceptable.

Deliberately not recording the proper hours of work to cause hassle and headaches for employees is not acceptable.

Only giving employees hours which they had before mentioned are inconvenient is also not acceptable. In my opinion this is simply criminal - giving mothers who need to work only hours their children are at school is totally unacceptable. Even more so when the hours had previously been agreed upon.

Terminating staff who become pregnant or allowing parental leave and then refusing them when they are ready to come back is not acceptable.

I think it's time to boycott Wilkinson and begin immediately moving to organise strike action - unofficial is perfectly fine (make a note of all who oppose the strike in the union leadership).

Wilkinson go on about low low prices, what they forget to mention is they sell bucket loads of useless crap which falls apart and screw their employees over nearly as much as Tesco.

Those guilty of crimes against the working masses shall be noted so justice can be carried out for the victims once the time comes.

I always said they'd never find him guilty of genocide, the prosecution in the trial suffered set back after set back. With only a few months to go finding him guilty on anything but the minor charges was looking more and more unlikely.

Now just a few days ago he's found dead, apparently of natural causes.

How convenient.

This is an absolute disgrace. His requests for medical treatment were all denied. An autopsy on his body was also denied - however due to public backlash a closed door autospy is now being carried out.

Not long ago he had sent a letter to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

They would like to poison me. I'm seriously concerned and worried.

His letter was based on a medical check-up he had on January the 12th - which found large quantities of "strong drugs only used for treating leprosy or tuberculosis".

It would not surprise me one bit if he was murdered, several other key people in the trial have also died. As I said above the case was looking more and more unlikely of proving anything. All the mass graves turned out only to have Serbian solders - or worse yet for the prosecution Serbian civilians.

No traces of ethnic cleansing of Albanians was found at all in Kosovo - the only traces of genocide being that of Serbs themselves - murdered by the KLA - who were financed by Washington and by Al Qaeda. Which is why the Yugoslav forces moved in - to defend the Serbian civilians. What myself and other Marxists have been saying all along. The KLA was doing all the killing.

Obviously if the truth came out it would be a disaster, as the trial looked more likely to end this way the only way to stop it would of been to bump Milosevic off - just before Clinton was suppose to give evidence too.

The Hague Tribunal would be in ruins if they couldn't get a guilty verdict.

It's just a shame Milosevic will go out vilified by private media in the west, who dubbed him the butcher of the Balkans, when all he tried to do was defend Yugoslavia from Western attemps and finally success to destroy the country. In the media it was always portrayed as Serbian nationalism. Yet the demonstrations in the streets clearly showed the crowds shouting Yugoslavia - not Serbia.

It's also an interesting fact that Serbia is the most multi-ethnic country out of the rest of former Yugoslavia, the other main member states are very ethnically one sided, and devoid of Serbs.

Does the evidence fit what the private media and governments have been saying? No it does not. A nationalist Serbia would be devoid of other ethnic groups, not the other way around.

Milosevic said in 1989:

Serbia has never had only Serbs living in it. Today, more than in the past, members of other peoples and nationalities also live in it. This is not a disadvantage for Serbia. I am truly convinced that it is its advantage.

Citizens of different nationalities, religions, and races have been living together more and more frequently and more and more successfully.

Milosevic was guilty of crimes against the working class for which he should face a life sentence, but what he did was far less worse than thosed who destroyed Yugoslavia.

When is Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright, Tony Blair and Robin Cook going to face trial for what they did and supported, when are all the KLA leaders going to be put on trial for genocide?

Season 2 is now finished, wow what an ending. I'd love to talk more about it, as you know I've not mentioned it much since the mid-season break. This is because I've got Catherine watching it and she's still a bit behind so I don't want to spoil anything.

However season 2 ended in the same fashion as season 1, the largest cliff hanger ever. How annoying. It was a fantastic episode, and I really hope they explore more of the Cylon heroes again in season 3 - which is already confirmed, I think it has some good potential I was kind of disappointed they didn't manage to squeeze this into season 2, but judging by the amount of stuff they had going on I'm amazed they managed to fit in everything they did without making it seem too rushy.

Keep up the good work all the people involved. I look forward to the DVD release in the UK, and the third season.

As it's the 8th of March I'd thought I'd steal some history of IWD from some other website and post it here. The early years:

1909

In accordance with a declaration by the Socialist Party of America, the first National Woman's Day was observed across the United States on 28 February. Women continued to celebrate it on the last Sunday of that month through 1913.

1910

The Socialist International, meeting in Copenhagen, established a Women's Day, international in character, to honour the movement for women's rights and to assist in achieving universal suffrage for women. The proposal was greeted with unanimous approval by the conference of over 100 women from 17 countries, which included the first three women elected to the Finnish parliament. No fixed date was selected for the observance.

1911

As a result of the decision taken at Copenhagen the previous year, International Women's Day was marked for the first time (19 March) in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, where more than one million women and men attended rallies. In addition to the right to vote and to hold public office, they demanded the right to work, to vocational training and to an end to discrimination on the job.

Less than a week later, on 25 March, the tragic Triangle Fire in New York City took the lives of more than 140 working girls, most of them Italian and Jewish immigrants. This event had a significant impact on labour legislation in the United States, and the working conditions leading up to the disaster were invoked during subsequent observances of International Women's Day.

1913-1914

As part of the peace movement brewing on the eve of World War I, Russian women observed their first International Women's Day on the last Sunday in February 1913. Elsewhere in Europe, on or around 8 March of the following year, women held rallies either to protest the war or to express solidarity with their sisters.

1917

With 2 million Russian soldiers dead in the war, Russian women again chose the last Sunday in February to strike for "bread and peace". Political leaders opposed the timing of the strike, but the women went on anyway. The rest is history: Four days later the Czar was forced to abdicate and the provisional Government granted women the right to vote. That historic Sunday fell on 23 February on the Julian calendar then in use in Russia, but on 8 March on the Gregorian calendar in use elsewhere.

From then on in the USSR and many other "socialist" countries the 8th March was one of the main holidays of the year. Yet few outside of the labour movement in the west even know about it. Hopefully this blog post will help bringing forward this day so it is recognised here also.