Texas Governor Rick Perry keynoting E3

The more kids that get 'unhinged' by games, the better off this guys' supporters will be; namely Merck. That's probably what Rick is thinking.

I'm already starting to like this Yankee.

Wow. E3 really has jumped the shark, hasn't it?

I miss when E3 was in May. We'd be knee deep in new games/coverage RIGHT NOW! I can't wait the two more months...and I won't!

This guy right here, single-handedly, redeems the phrase "Texas politician".

Our state keeps representing all the genres. What can't we do?!

(Expects ridiculous posts citing what we can't do. Will be shielded by our pride!)

"The faith that permeates the lives of so many middle Americans is often derided as a crutch for weak people," Perry writes. "This seems to be the view of many liberal elitists who worship the false idol of self. The views of a great many Americans are cast aside as over-simplified, and the liberal intelligentsia like to think of themselves as the only legitimate arbiters of morality. They think the public simply doesn't know better and is easily manipulated by the emotional appeals of troglodyte, conservative commentators."
-Rick Perry
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/02/09/0209perrybook.html

Sounds like a nice guys. You should hear what he thinks about atheists and the ACLU.

These is one of the politicians i like the most,probably just because its one of the few i dont dislike.
Still,E3 is sucking,PAX ftw now.

I used to hate Rick Perry (Plano resident FTW!), but I gained a lot of respect from him when he signed an executive agreement requiring Guardisil for middle school girls. The shot basically prevents the two biggest strains of HPV in girls, which most often lead to cervical cancer.

The decision would have taken many years (due to some of the crazies down here) to get passed, and he realized that saving lives was more important than bickering for bickerings sake.

Unfortunately, the Texas Senate overturned his executive agreement. I guess saving girls lives isn't important to some people. *rolls eyes*

I know HPV doesn't equal cervical cancer, but it's the main reason.

"Persistent HPV infections are now recognized as the major cause of cervical cancer. In 2007, it was estimated that 11,000 women in the United States would be diagnosed with this type of cancer and nearly 4,000 would die from it."

That means it's a 63% of survival. That's not very good. That doesn't sound like a very treatable disease. Yes, it's still better than 50/50, but the trial was done with over 15 thousand patients. Very few reported any side effects.

I was born and raised in Austin TX. I work in the local media. I have to say that Rick Perry the worst Texas Governor I have ever covered in television news. The HPV vaccine that the previous posters were referring to was nothing more than a favor to the drug company Merck. Perry has several ties to Merck. One of the drug company's three lobbyists in Texas is Mike Toomey, his former chief of staff. Perry has been the lead proponent of the Trans-Texas Corridor, a $145+ billion-dollar highway project, partially financed, partially built and wholly operated by private contractors who will receive all toll proceeds, notably Cintra, a Spanish-owned company. Rick Perry is a no good SOB. All of the gaming community should be upset that such a tool is speaking at their biggest event.

And he is a closet homosexual. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Oh, please, the candidate he "defeated" was never a serious contender.

I bet almost every politicians gets into politics for the right reasons. But they can never stay in politics unless they're willing to play. That means favorable policies for big money, and big business. Most are corrupted by this (I think Perry falls into the corrupted category like most); very few are able to play along and occasionally squeeze in a microscopic bit of policy that actually helps the majority of the people who elected them. This grand idea of democracy is nothing but a fine brick facade on the run-down crack house that is America.

What!?! They're bringing in some mainstream figure that the media will take seriously? What are they thinking? Don't they know that the answers to the litigation issues that plague the gaming industry will only be found in remaining insular, denying the research, and hating on anything and everything that isn't on the fringe? I suppose next they'll try to convince people that gamers aren't simply a bunch of prepubescent males pursuing violent wish fulfillment.