P&R youtube thread

[Linoleum]

Oh, teabaggers! (http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/12/22/taking_coburn_at_his_word.html)

I had no idea it was possible to troll C-SPAN.

[Anti-Bunny]

Sen. Max Baucus had a little too much to drinky. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Y9X5ggxzA)

[Anti-Bunny]

Crazy mayor puts a stop to all police chases (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfqM-LfzvX4&feature=player_embedded)

May god bless you!

[Blackadar]

Crazy mayor puts a stop to all police chases (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfqM-LfzvX4&feature=player_embedded)

May god bless you!

And was quickly reversed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGNuZVRL_-U&feature=fvw

[Lizard_King]

Sen. Max Baucus had a little too much to drinky. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Y9X5ggxzA)

The best part is that he probably sounded really eloquent inside his own head.

[bago]

Mike Gravel pwns. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpg5sgKB7rU&feature=youtube_gdata)

[Anti-Bunny]

Mike Gravel pwns. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpg5sgKB7rU&feature=youtube_gdata)

Two years late (http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?p=1219077&highlight=Dpg5sgKB7rU#post1219077)

[Destarius]

And was quickly reversed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGNuZVRL_-U&feature=fvw

It's shocking how stupid she comes across as a person. Oh good God.

[Anti-Bunny]

Vice Guide to Liberia (http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-travel/the-vice-guide-to-liberia-1-of-8)

[Soapyfrog]

Jesus

[Anti-Bunny]

Jesus

Yep, apparently CNN was so impressed they have announced a partnership to distribute Vice journalism.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/01/18/vbs.liberia/index.html

[John Many Jars]

Westboro Baptist attempted to picket the Twitter offices in SF. (http://vimeo.com/9062237)

Rickrolls were deployed in response:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4059/4312683209_7c9b93b2d6.jpg

[alexlitel]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbz89k_davos-annual-meeting-2010-adm-ceo-p_news

The Yes Men are amazing.

[Anti-Bunny]

So, Jon Stewart was on Bill O'rielly's show
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4003531/entire-jon-stewart-interview/?playlist_id=86923

It's entertaining.

[Athryn]

Carly Fioriana implies that Tom Campbell is a Furry? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo7HiQRM7BA&feature=player_embedded)

Has to be one of the most surreal attack ads I've ever seen.

[bago]

Remember those awesome Chinese CG videos about Tiger Woods?

This time, John Edwards (http://video.adultswim.com/adult-swim-news/john-edwards.html) gets the treatment.

[alexlitel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok1EllhHgoU

Apparently, heavy-handed Michael Jackson songs are too obtuse for tweenage Becktards.

[MatthewF]

Carly Fioriana implies that Tom Campbell is a Furry? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo7HiQRM7BA&feature=player_embedded)

Has to be one of the most surreal attack ads I've ever seen.

I could almost picture David Lynch doing that ad. Almost. The demon sheep furry was definitely a Lynch moment.

[MikeSofaer]

I didn't realize that cutting taxes in a time of huge deficits was fiscally conservative.

[Rasputin]

I didn't realize that cutting taxes in a time of huge deficits was fiscally conservative.

Much like nothing can stop the Grimace, cutting taxes at any time is always fiscally conservative.

[John Many Jars]

GWB shakes a Haitian's hand, then wipes the hand on Bill Clinton's shirt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oHOUnQ0gYI

[Calistas]

So, Jon Stewart was on Bill O'rielly's show
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4003531/entire-jon-stewart-interview/?playlist_id=86923

It's entertaining.

I just LOVE how he deconstructs O'Rielly's show while being on it, and poor old Bill doesn't really know how to respond and just tries to keep moving as fast as possible.... And the Fox guys in the background laughing at Stewart's Fox jokes!

..man, I'm half way through and it's bloody awesome!

...holy shit, even when he doesn't say anything he owns O'Reilly. Fantastic. Thanks Anti.

While we're here, I love how O'Reilly completely patronizes his audience and completely fails to understand that he did. Stewart was speechless. Perfect. Hope Bill O's audience got that as well...

[Christien Murawski]

So, Jon Stewart was on Bill O'rielly's show
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4003531/entire-jon-stewart-interview/?playlist_id=86923

It's entertaining.

I loved this. Loved it. Calistas completely nails it, BTW. Beautiful.

Something cool after I watched the clip was the lead in to the next clip on the FNC website: "Is Nickelodeon Getting Political? Why is a children's network honoring Michelle Obama?"

Now I understand how these things work from reading Fidgit. How blog headlines are written to make you click through. Furthermore I understand that this is how cable news works as well. But that little header perfectly illustrates the point Jon Stewart was making.

The only thing I didn't like about this was Jon Stewart's repeated assertion that Bill O'Reilly is the voice of reason on Fox News. Crap. I really don't want to have to watch that show again. I already paid my dues on that. Maybe he was being ironic. Hopefully.

My favorite moment is at the end, when Bill totally effs up in his equating Brit Hume's proselytizing for Christianity on Fox News with Jon Stewart's espousing of liberalism. Christianity and liberalism. More telling than almost anything O'Reilly said. Oops for you, Bill O. Analogy fail. [This isn't entirely fair. Bill O'Reilly sucks at establishing equivalency. He's always been terrible at this.]

Anyway, such a great interview. Just great.


-xtien

"I'm gonna go with Pinhead. Pinhead? Is Pinhead right? Or is it Patriot?"

[Matthew Gallant]

The only thing I didn't like about this was Jon Stewart's repeated assertion that Bill O'Reilly is the voice of reason on Fox News. Crap. I really don't want to have to watch that show again. I already paid my dues on that. Maybe he was being ironic. Hopefully.
Yes, he was. Bill constantly fibs about little things and very big things to denigrate the left and whitewash the right. However, when pressed he will admit that Democrats are not trying to destroy America from within. He also once claimed that a hike on Capital Gains Tax from 15% to 20% would be OK. This makes him the voice of reason.

[BlueJackalope]

So, Jon Stewart was on Bill O'rielly's show
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4003531/entire-jon-stewart-interview/?playlist_id=86923

It's entertaining.

That was good, glad I didn't miss it.

I really like hearing left - right discussions where each others views is given enough time. Long form with no commercials is facinating.
To O'Rielly's credit he didn't try to bulldoze Stewart.


Love to see these two sit down once a week.

[Jason McCullough]

Is O'Reilly actually so dumb he didn't understand Jon, or is that just part of his shtick?

[Pogo]

O'Reilly is the only pundit on FOX that will secede to some liberal talking points. I watched his show for a couple nights after HCR passed, and he really is the only pundit not completely trashing the bill due to partisan bias. After the president's speech about HCR a couple months ago, he disagreed with much of Karl Rove's bullshit when he came on as a guest.

He still has that "hometown traditional Christian" thing going on, but he does whip out a lot of common sense talk, even if some of it has trademark hints of bias. I think his interview with the Catholic teacher/priest about the daugter of a lesbian couple being expelled from a Catholic school kinda points to his occasional ability to be rational.

And to be fair, the man still has a political show to defend, you just cannot stand up to Jon Stewart. Anyone that does will quickly run to defend themselves by insulting Jon's show by calling it "only entertainment" in order to make themselves feel more credible.

[Calistas]

What I thought was sad about O'Reilly in that interview is you can tell the guy is no fool but he is so "trapped" in his show's format he feels the need to constantly chuck out one-liners and stupid tricksy statements in an effort to get a rise out of his guests. Stewart did a superb job of never rising to any of the games and it made O'R look fairly lost and confused. I'd almost be interested in watching Bill O playing it more straight, but it might make him too moderate for Fox?

[Christien Murawski]

What I thought was sad about O'Reilly in that interview is you can tell the guy is no fool but he is so "trapped" in his show's format he feels the need to constantly chuck out one-liners and stupid tricksy statements in an effort to get a rise out of his guests. Stewart did a superb job of never rising to any of the games and it made O'R look fairly lost and confused.

The best example of this for my money was O'Reilly trotting out his tired assertion that all Daily Show viewers are a bunch of slacker stoners. He's been saying that for years. I believe this stereotype was eventually officially debunked by some poll or other...not that it needed to be. But this was so long ago. Yet he still chucked it out there as a distraction. And Stewart just totally ignored it. Nice.


I'd almost be interested in watching Bill O playing it more straight, but it might make him too moderate for Fox?

You know, now that I think of it his personality is most moderate on the Factor. At least it used to be. I listened to his radio program years ago and that was always much more extreme. So I don't know if he can play it more straight. I wonder what that would do to the sales of his books.


-xtien

[Calistas]

Stewart made is seem like Bill O's heart really wasn't in it.

[alexlitel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xULUb98TNwk

John McCain makes a funny

[Pogo]

Now that's good stuff.

[alexlitel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhqbT3OiPLs

Could someone please explain the tennis comment?

[Anti-Bunny]

Could someone please explain the tennis comment?

What do you think it means?

[alexlitel]

What do you think it means?I know what it means, but I want to know what that club's deal is from an Alabaman.

Also, keep your iPods.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLyIImZHkQ0

[alexlitel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AHrKPoF4Uo

The Philippines has rather cool campaign ads.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-VZVVa67ek

Betty White's stunt double is running for mayor of Newport News, VA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XhVg77lORQ

"I'm Harold Johnson. For many years I covered your hometown sports…"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c79BD8Z5wg0

"a very easy way to cut taxes is to stop spending"

[BobJustBob]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhqbT3OiPLs

Could someone please explain the tennis comment?

I don't think there's any special significance to it. He's pointing out that he's a dumb fat gun-wielding hick just like most of Alabama's voters who would never be so elitist as to play tennis in a country club.

[Jason McCullough]

Yeah, in a lot of the south tennis is what strange uppity rich people do. Which should make it heroic, because they venerate rich people, but I guess only rich people who pretend to be ranchers.

[Anti-Bunny]

Quiz show! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB3g6mXLEKk)

[VendoViper]

youtube.com/watch?v=B9ohsvJHkbY

Man printing all those drivers licence tests in different languages must be pretttttty damn expensive.

[frank austin]

Gee, I wonder where you saw that (http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?t=58974).

[Christien Murawski]

Gee, I wonder where you saw that (http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?t=58974).

I love his look down at the end. Which I interpret as vestigial shame.


-xtien

[Malathor]

Rather straightforward commentary about the Pope:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHRDfut2Vx0

NSFW

[Calistas]

Posted yet? The financial meltdown as a musical number :)
http://vimeo.com/10815824

[Lh'owon]

One of the more disturbing things I've seen in awhile. SWAT team raids man's home in Missouri, shoot the two dogs, this with children in the house, and arrest the father. They find "a small amount of marijuana". They apparently then charge the parents with "child endangerment".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbwSwvUaRqc

Pretty sickening to be honest.

[Anti-Bunny]

One of the more disturbing things I've seen in awhile. SWAT team raids man's home in Missouri, shoot the two dogs, this with children in the house, and arrest the father. They find "a small amount of marijuana". They apparently then charge the parents with "child endangerment".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbwSwvUaRqc

Pretty sickening to be honest.
Yep, this is posted in the taser thread, which has become the sort of police militarism megathread.

[Anti-Bunny]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaBk1dUF9nM

That's.. weird. Not sure what to make of that.

[Cubit]

Letting the media cover military vets protesting DADT is bad politics for Mr. President. It was an unprecedented move to kick the media out.

[Anti-Bunny]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlJdsX181QU

Onion <3

[Anti-Bunny]

Gary Johnson on Colbert.
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/309253/may-10-2010/gary-johnson

[Talisker]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlJdsX181QU

Onion <3
Please please please make this a regular bit.

[BlueJackalope]

Alabama (http://wonkette.com/415360/alabama-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-attacked-for-lack-of-jesusness)

[BobJustBob]

I have got to get out of this fucking state.

[Christien Murawski]

Lewis Black on The Daily Show: Glenn Beck's Nazi Tourette's (http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-may-12-2010/back-in-black---glenn-beck-s-nazi-tourette-s)


-xtien

"We'll let you know when it's safe to come out."

[Pogo]

I have got to get out of this fucking state.

Yes, yes you do.

[Anti-Bunny]

Food fight at the Ukrainian Parliament. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfCRyLlyqJI)

[Pogo]

Good 'ol Ukraine. Poland's Mexico.

[Lum]

Alabama (http://wonkette.com/415360/alabama-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-attacked-for-lack-of-jesusness)

Yeah but this makes up for it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU7fhIO7DG0). Damn, I want to vote for him TWICE. Plus if I don't he might shoot me.

[BobJustBob]

Fucking Alabama...

[Anti-Bunny]

Yeah but this makes up for it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU7fhIO7DG0). Damn, I want to vote for him TWICE. Plus if I don't he might shoot me.
Nice trigger discipline!

[MikeSofaer]

Man knows how to carry concealed!

[RyanMichael]

I love this so much.

Tweak the nipple of Dick Armey! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMUVFctJ2Xw)

[Anti-Bunny]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgfuuWarc0c

amazing...

[caesarbear]

I can't wait for the re-mixes of that one.

[Lum]

Bad hotel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-79pX1IOqPU).

[Anti-Bunny]

What the hell is wrong with the ATF? (http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/05/26/atf.whistleblowers/index.html)

[Hans Lauring]

Bill Maher on climate change:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f6Z0_HMLo8&feature=player_embedded

"The subject is science so the non-scientists don't get a vote"
- I agree, but wish Maher would apply that yardstick to the anti-vaccination "debate" as well.

[Anti-Bunny]

BP spills coffee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAa0gd7ClM)

[Anti-Bunny]

When congressmen attack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v60oNUoHBYM)

[Anti-Bunny]

North Korea beats Brazil 1-0. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7TIMpCy8jo)

Actually, they lost 0-1, but the People's Republic of Korea will never know that.

More of the same. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewQO6P0N4D0)

[Mordrak]

North Korea beats Brazil 1-0. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7TIMpCy8jo)

Actually, they lost 0-1, but the People's Republic of Korea will never know that.

More of the same. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewQO6P0N4D0)


Anyone here speak or can understand Korean? Several of the comments claim the voices aren't talking about the game and the subtitles don't match.

[Anti-Bunny]

Anyone here speak or can understand Korean? Several of the comments claim the voices aren't talking about the game and the subtitles don't match.
Awwh, really? It is a pretty good hoax then. I guess the NK football team will forever be stuck in the shadow of the fatherly leader's legendary sports career.

[Mordrak]

Awwh, really? It is a pretty good hoax then. I guess the NK football team will forever be stuck in the shadow of the fatherly leader's legendary sports career.

Yeah. Maybe the comments are from North Korean cyber warriors trying to spread disinformation. It's the Cold War 2.0! Heh.

You never know, but it's totally believable North Korea would do that which makes it a really clever hoax.

[Anti-Bunny]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Z2SwYvKcE

Banned from Miami Metro 'for life' for using a video camera, after being told they don't need permission by the commissioner. Other highlights: LEOs lying on video, demanding ID without any crimes committed, threatening to confiscate video camera as 'evidence'.

They'd planned to get on the metro and see how far they could get before they were stopped. They never even left the parking lot.

[Anti-Bunny]

Teaching Evolution in the Bible Belt. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L640vc_XBjk)
By the time the video was over, I had to check again to see if this was Arizona.

[Christien Murawski]

Well at least I understand the reason for that little soccer ball now.


-xtien

[Soapyfrog]

"How can an African American person evolve from a White person? We're different skinned!"

Yeah good point, Cletus! These kids have no chance... trying to learn subject matter that the teacher doesn't even beleive in a society which already rejects that subject matter entirely. Gah it's just so depressing... this is in the most advanced country on earth for pete's sake.

[Dave Perkins]

I'm glad that the teacher fosters discussion in his classroom. Whether he's good at facilitating it is another matter. He seemed articulate and caring to me.

I'd LOVE to know what he said in response to the guy who said an African-American person couldn't have evolved from a white person. I mean, first of all, the reverse is far more likely. Anyhow, that kid's comment could spark a ton of other questions that could really educate these students, so despite that it sounds silly, it's an awesome starting point.

[kerzain]

Did you just suggest black people are further back on the evolutionary scale?

[Anti-Bunny]

I'd LOVE to know what he said in response to the guy who said an African-American person couldn't have evolved from a white person. I mean, first of all, the reverse is far more likely. Anyhow, that kid's comment could spark a ton of other questions that could really educate these students, so despite that it sounds silly, it's an awesome starting point.
I don't know what I'd say.. It's too much for one day.. I guess I'd have to start with a lesson on archeology and human migration. But that would have to be after a lesson on speciation. Then call attention to how the white skin color pigmentation was a mutation (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/15/AR2005121501728.html).. and then--OH MY GOD OUR TEACHER IS PREACHING THAT WE CAME FROM BLACK PEOPLE.

[Kurdel]

Did you just suggest black people are further back on the evolutionary scale?

Mutation does not equal "down the evolution scale". As red heads, or people with fairer eyes aren't "higher".


Hence when humans migrated to less sun-intensive regions in the north, low vitamin D3 levels became a problem and lighter skin colors started appearing. White people of Europe, who have low levels of melanin, naturally have an almost colorless skin pigmentation, especially when untanned. This low level of pigmentation allows the blood vessels to become visible and gives the characteristic pale pink color of white people. The loss of melanin in white people is now thought to have been caused by a mutation in just one letter out of 3.1 billion letters of DNA.[8]

(from the Black people wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people))

[Dave Perkins]

Yeah, exactly, Anti-Bunny. All of those topics are great to talk about in school. The kid's question is dumb, sure, but he's essentially throwing the door open for someone to slowly and patiently and creatively educate him.

[Soapyfrog]

I think that by his age he probably should have learned a thing or two in biology class. This guy is not in Grade 7.

[Chris WPG]

Seeing a bit of macroecon talk going on in other threads, so I thought I'd post this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk

[Anti-Bunny]

Seeing a bit of macroecon talk going on in other threads, so I thought I'd post this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk
This is the best video in the thread.

[Enidigm]

I don't know what I'd say.. It's too much for one day.. I guess I'd have to start with a lesson on archeology and human migration. But that would have to be after a lesson on speciation. Then call attention to how the white skin color pigmentation was a mutation (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/15/AR2005121501728.html).. and then--OH MY GOD OUR TEACHER IS PREACHING THAT WE CAME FROM BLACK PEOPLE.

That's... nuts, imo. In 20k years one genetic mutation was able to spread over 1/2 the surface of the world? The converse of this is that we should see black skinned people falling dead like flies (more or less) in the Northern climates from Vitamin D deficiency, which pretty clearly doesn't happen.

While i don't doubt evolution i doubt the origin of this mutation came from 20kya. I strongly suspect they will eventually discover the origin of this allele - and indeed most "northern" racial differences - to be from interbreeding from Neanderthals.

[Anti-Bunny]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Z2SwYvKcE

Banned from Miami Metro 'for life' for using a video camera, after being told they don't need permission by the commissioner. Other highlights: LEOs lying on video, demanding ID without any crimes committed, threatening to confiscate video camera as 'evidence'.

They'd planned to get on the metro and see how far they could get before they were stopped. They never even left the parking lot.
More on this from Simple Justice:
Just making it up as they go along (http://blog.simplejustice.us/2010/07/03/just-making-it-up-as-they-go-along.aspx?ref=rss).

[Anti-Bunny]

That's... nuts, imo. In 20k years one genetic mutation was able to spread over 1/2 the surface of the world? The converse of this is that we should see black skinned people falling dead like flies (more or less) in the Northern climates from Vitamin D deficiency, which pretty clearly doesn't happen.

While i don't doubt evolution i doubt the origin of this mutation came from 20kya. I strongly suspect they will eventually discover the origin of this allele - and indeed most "northern" racial differences - to be from interbreeding from Neanderthals.
Uuhh... No. We need a certin amount of sunlight to stay healthy, it stimulates vitamin E synthesis among other things.. (we also don't want too much, ie cancer) BTW, It looks like "insolation as a function of latitude" is a common astronomy/astrophysics problem for college students, so that's an easy (http://www.applet-magic.com/insolation01.gif) thing (http://www.applet-magic.com/insolation02.gif) to look up the math for. Short version, even accounting for weather variation, you get about triple the amount of solar input per meter in Costa Rica or Central africa that you do in Minnesota, Poland, Chicago, etc.

Also, we know that blacks have become whites and vice versa in only a few hundred years. Skin color changes relatively quickly even in reproductively isolated populations when you change the environmental variables that affect it. Of course, you won't get the other phenotypic variations, though. And actually, while they're not dropping dead, Africian Americans in the US and Blacks in Europe are getting Rickets Disease and similar problems way more often than would be expected. The main reason this isn't more serious? The relatively recent mass domestication of cows and production of milk (along with the loss of lactose intolerance in most populations). Most blacks living in relatively low-sun climates are fine because the miracles of modern society give them lots of replacement sources for the vitamins they need.

The 'Neanderthal theory' is pretty much crazypants.

[bago]

More on this from Simple Justice:
Just making it up as they go along (http://blog.simplejustice.us/2010/07/03/just-making-it-up-as-they-go-along.aspx?ref=rss).

A corporate-governmental collaboration in the suppression of information (http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/radio/2010/06/28/mcclelland/index.html). If there was only a word you could use to describe such a thing that a magazine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_Review) funded by an oil conglomerate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_Foundation) could print...

[Enidigm]

Uuhh... No. We need a certin amount of sunlight to stay healthy, it stimulates vitamin E synthesis among other things.. (we also don't want too much, ie cancer) BTW, It looks like "insolation as a function of latitude" is a common astronomy/astrophysics problem for college students, so that's an easy (http://www.applet-magic.com/insolation01.gif) thing (http://www.applet-magic.com/insolation02.gif) to look up the math for. Short version, even accounting for weather variation, you get about triple the amount of solar input per meter in Costa Rica or Central africa that you do in Minnesota, Poland, Chicago, etc.

Also, we know that blacks have become whites and vice versa in only a few hundred years. Skin color changes relatively quickly even in reproductively isolated populations when you change the environmental variables that affect it. Of course, you won't get the other phenotypic variations, though. And actually, while they're not dropping dead, Africian Americans in the US and Blacks in Europe are getting Rickets Disease and similar problems way more often than would be expected. The main reason this isn't more serious? The relatively recent mass domestication of cows and production of milk (along with the loss of lactose intolerance in most populations). Most blacks living in relatively low-sun climates are fine because the miracles of modern society give them lots of replacement sources for the vitamins they need.

The 'Neanderthal theory' is pretty much crazypants.

That's an interesting data point about Rickets Disease. OTOH, we live far more sedentary, indoor, lifestyles than in the past.

As to the Neanderthal DNA, there is a new study that already has shown that there was some degree of in-breeding: http://news.discovery.com/human/neanderthal-human-interbreed-dna.html, and most relevant to my position, with none apparently in sub-saharan African populations (though the sample set of humans tested is rather uninformatively small).

I rather suspect we'll find similar in-breeding with other "pioneer" hominids as time goes on. The whole out-of-Africa at 20-30kya has always troubled me, as i just can't imagine the amount of diversity in human populations that we see evolving in such a short time frame, from relatively bottlenecked populations. I always assumed that this hypothesis was simply wrong, despite it's widespread acceptance, and that human populations left 800kya or even earlier. But interbreeding with existing hominid populations, that have had time to evolve regional adaptations, resolves both positions.

[Dave Perkins]

Uuhh... No. We need a certin amount of sunlight to stay healthy, it stimulates vitamin E synthesis among other things.. (we also don't want too much, ie cancer) BTW, It looks like "insolation as a function of latitude" is a common astronomy/astrophysics problem for college students, so that's an easy (http://www.applet-magic.com/insolation01.gif) thing (http://www.applet-magic.com/insolation02.gif) to look up the math for. Short version, even accounting for weather variation, you get about triple the amount of solar input per meter in Costa Rica or Central africa that you do in Minnesota, Poland, Chicago, etc.

What do the different colored lines mean in your first graph, AB?

[soondifferent]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Z2SwYvKcE

Banned from Miami Metro 'for life' for using a video camera, after being told they don't need permission by the commissioner. Other highlights: LEOs lying on video, demanding ID without any crimes committed, threatening to confiscate video camera as 'evidence'.

They'd planned to get on the metro and see how far they could get before they were stopped. They never even left the parking lot.

I always wonder for situations like this (or protesting G8/G20 etc), where you're going to be butting heads against "authority figures", shouldn't they take videos on their phone? There must be some kind of app that sends recorded video to a remote server semi-realtime, right?

(I wouldn't know, because I'm too cheap to pay for a data plan)

[Anti-Bunny]

As to the Neanderthal DNA, there is a new study that already has shown that there was some degree of in-breeding: http://news.discovery.com/human/neanderthal-human-interbreed-dna.html, and most relevant to my position, with none apparently in sub-saharan African populations (though the sample set of humans tested is rather uninformatively small).
I have heard of this. Though taking that as evidence for skin color is, frankly, silly.


I rather suspect we'll find similar in-breeding with other "pioneer" hominids as time goes on. The whole out-of-Africa at 20-30kya has always troubled me, as i just can't imagine the amount of diversity in human populations that we see evolving in such a short time frame, from relatively bottlenecked populations. I always assumed that this hypothesis was simply wrong, despite it's widespread acceptance, and that human populations left 800kya or even earlier. But interbreeding with existing hominid populations, that have had time to evolve regional adaptations, resolves both positions.
Oh come on. There is zero evidence of H. Sapiens before 35kya.

Edit: my bad: 50,000. Earliest anatomically modern human fossil is 195,000 years old. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omo_remains

[Anti-Bunny]

More on this from Simple Justice:
Just making it up as they go along (http://blog.simplejustice.us/2010/07/03/just-making-it-up-as-they-go-along.aspx?ref=rss).
More on this from Radley Balko, Senior Editor at Reason, on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128387108

[bago]

We really do need a protester app that automatically records video, uploads it to a bunch of different sites, and lets authority know that, "Yes, reality happened, and you can't hide from it", like many fascists are wont to do.

BP, lookin at you.

[bago]

Hezbollah going to Venezuela to learn Spanish so that they can become illegal immigrants through Mexico. Or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb9dwXqiUts&feature=player_embedded

[bago]

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/07/the-cnn-interview-that-never-happened.html

iphone customer / palin mashup

[Anaxagoras]

Hezbollah going to Venezuela to learn Spanish so that they can become illegal immigrants through Mexico. Or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb9dwXqiUts&feature=player_embedded

Hez-BOW-luh

[bago]

Some Weiner action (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4zwCMf8dsc&feature=player_embedded).

[Anti-Bunny]

The dude from Photography is Not a Crime (http://carlosmiller.com/) that was 'banned for life' from the Miami Metro went back with a camera crew from HDNet TV..

Things got violent (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Ul0CPDEBs&feature=player_embedded).


In front of a cable/satellite news team with cameras rolling, a Miami-Dade Metrorail security guard ripped my video camera from my hand, knocking it to the ground, before pocketing it and refusing to return it.

The guard then began pushing me aggressively after I had pulled out my iPhone to continue recording – all while telling me to stop pushing him.

He then struck my hand again in an attempt to snatch the iPhone.

I struck him back, busting his lip.

[bago]

Mocap abstinence simulator from florida (http://www.joystiq.com/2010/07/28/university-of-central-floridas-abstinence-edu-game-is-just-the/#continued)...

Alternate title: How I learned that wearing a black suit with ping pong balls won't get me laid.

[Skipper]

Hezbollah going to Venezuela to learn Spanish so that they can become illegal immigrants through Mexico. Or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb9dwXqiUts&feature=player_embedded

Thank you so much for this link. I cannot stand Sue Myrick and while laughing at this video I randomly paused and was rewarded with "The Face of Crazy."

http://a.imageshack.us/img823/7734/thefaceofcrazy.jpg

[Lizard_King]

I couldn't find a smaller clip that also had the beginning of the interview, but here's the full episode containing Colbert's interview (http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showpost.php?p=2321692&postcount=62)with Laura Ingraham, author of the Obama Diaries. It's right after the 2nd break, in the third segment of the show.

"Ichabod Crane's Banshee Widow" is probably one of the classiest things I've seen Colbert own up to and handle well, but it's really all about the excerpts from the book itself. Colbert exploits the meta nature of the diaries to great effect.

Also, who thinks banshees are of Native American origin?

[bago]

I haven't even finished watching this clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBB6kZ16DUc&feature=player_embedded) before giving it a HOLY WTF!?!?!

It involves Basil Marceaux and spider-man in LA.

[Dave Perkins]

Steven Colbert details how to ruin gay marriage (http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/343140/august-05-2010/how-to-ruin-same-sex-marriages).

[Anti-Bunny]

Ben Quayle for Congress ad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4jiqYcUoOk

What a creep.

[Anti-Bunny]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pumIT31qqQQ

Yikes..

[Lizard_King]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pumIT31qqQQ

Yikes..

Dub it in English and you have a perfect universal tea party platform ad. Although I guess they'd have to finish it up with a clear indication that they don't want to give money to either the burka hordes or the old lady.

[Anti-Bunny]

Dub it in English and you have a perfect universal tea party platform ad. Although I guess they'd have to finish it up with a clear indication that they don't want to give money to either the burka hordes or the old lady.
Actually, it's pretty clearly not the tea party platform... What struck me about this commercial is how you'd never see something like this in the US.

[Lizard_King]

Actually, it's pretty clearly not the tea party platform... What struck me about this commercial is how you'd never see something like this in the US.
You mean because of the high production values and the attention to lighting? In order to be a Tea Party ad, it would need gratuitous Jesus references and a few misspellings. Our "fear of the other" political ads are much more crude (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC9j6Wfdq3o), I agree.

[Anti-Bunny]

You mean because of the high production values and the attention to lighting? In order to be a Tea Party ad, it would need gratuitous Jesus references and a few misspellings. Our "fear of the other" political ads are much more crude (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC9j6Wfdq3o), I agree.
No, I don't mean that at all.. and you linked to a Bush Sr. ad? I don't get it.

[Mordrak]

No, I don't mean that at all.. and you linked to a Bush Sr. ad? I don't get it.

Were you looking for something more like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIxg7LmlEQg)?

[Anti-Bunny]

Were you looking for something more like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIxg7LmlEQg)?
I think you meant to post that to LK.

But, okay.. What exactly am I supposed to see here? That commercials depict Al Queda members as a domestic security concern (or something, I don't know, I can't stand to watch more then a few seconds of Movie Narration Voice Explains How It Really Is) is JUST AS BAD as demonizing immigrants in Burqas as nothing but a drain on the economy that want to take your grandmother's money?

[Mordrak]

I think you meant to post that to LK.

But, okay.. What exactly am I supposed to see here? That commercials depict Al Queda members as a domestic security concern is JUST AS BAD as demonizing immigrants in Burqas as nothing but a drain on the economy that want to take your grandmother's money?

Both ads use racially charged imagery to instill fear in their target audience.

[Lizard_King]

I think you meant to post that to LK.

But, okay.. What exactly am I supposed to see here? That commercials depict Al Queda members as a domestic security concern (or something, I don't know, I can't stand to watch more then a few seconds of Movie Narration Voice Explains How It Really Is) is JUST AS BAD as demonizing immigrants in Burqas as nothing but a drain on the economy that want to take your grandmother's money?
That's not what the ad says. It accuses Eric Holder of running a "Department of Jihad" and sharing Bin Laden's values (that's him in the background when they play the old "ask the question accusation" game). If you're not willing to recognize the obvious parallels, it's exactly the kind of "fear of the other" that the Willie Horton ad targeted. You simply use a recognizable enemy of the target audience to smear a political opponent that is unwilling to use race or religion baiting to the same reckless degree.

Point being, the Swedish ad is exceptional only because it is well made. The message itself is a fairly universal nativist dog whistle, and it crops up everywhere from time to time, whether in the form of Lyndon Larouche or the Tea Party.

[Anaxagoras]

Burn a Quran Day!!!!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdtFk_V6A4M&)

Watch the Quran.... get its ASS KICKED!

[Linoleum]

Maybe he can get a job as a professional wrestler instead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMgyi57s-A4

[Adam Eayrs]

PHIL DAVISON, GOP CANDIDATE, DELIVERS STARK COUNTY TREASURER'S NOMINATION SPEECH... AT THE TOP OF HIS FUCKING LUNGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMgyi57s-A4&feature=youtube_gdata_player)

If his voice didn't squeak into falsetto this would be kind of intimidating.

[Lh'owon]

Chris Bryant tears into Kay Burley on Sky News (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDYalpZhG_8)

A Labour MP in the UK talking about the phone hacking scandal and calling the anchor dim for her inane and uninformed questions. Good stuff.

[Anaxagoras]

Chris Bryant tears into Kay Burley on Sky News (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDYalpZhG_8)

A Labour MP in the UK talking about the phone hacking scandal and calling the anchor dim for her inane and uninformed questions. Good stuff.

What's the matter with that anchor? If she were on our media, I would think she was yet another Very Stupid Person, but she had a British accent. People with British accents are never Very Stupid People. Rather, they're always droll, mildly clever, & self-deprecating. Hugh Grant has taught me this.

[Lizard_King]

Taiwanese media continues to do awesome things with creepy cgi, in this case (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRXu4wna11I&feature=player_embedded) summarizing the current state of the Tea Party in a way that requires no subtitles.

[Tankero]

That's Sims/Real Life modded footage. It's surprisingly well done, I've always thought. I like how Obama's fate isn't yet certain.

[Erik J.]

Taiwanese media continues to do awesome things with creepy cgi, in this case (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRXu4wna11I&feature=player_embedded) summarizing the current state of the Tea Party in a way that requires no subtitles.

That's pretty good/accurate.

[snowcrash22]

I have a fondness for mashups.

Donald Duck Discovers Glenn Beck (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfuwNU0jsk0&feature=player_embedded)

7:46 minute cartoon. If you are in a hurry you can skip to 2:30 after Donald loses his job and starts getting foreclosure notices.

"That ...is ..not...right"

[Anti-Bunny]

I have a fondness for mashups.

Donald Duck Discovers Glenn Beck (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfuwNU0jsk0&feature=player_embedded)

7:46 minute cartoon. If you are in a hurry you can skip to 2:30 after Donald loses his job and starts getting foreclosure notices.

"That ...is ..not...right"
This video is great. Don't skip ahead.

[Jason McCullough]

That's a disturbingly accurate summary.

[Jojo]

Christine O'Donnell isn't a witch, in case you were wondering. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqJWuThzmKA)
She is a pod person, perhaps?

[Adree]

I have a fondness for mashups.

Donald Duck Discovers Glenn Beck (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfuwNU0jsk0&feature=player_embedded)

7:46 minute cartoon. If you are in a hurry you can skip to 2:30 after Donald loses his job and starts getting foreclosure notices.

"That ...is ..not...right"

This is amazing. The last few minutes are spectacular.

[Kolonial]

The rent is too damn high (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4o-TeMHys0).

[bago]

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/10/elvira_mistress_of_the_dark.php#more?ref=fpblg

She's right about the tits.

[Jason McCullough]

This is the funniest video I've seen this cycle (http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=10&year=2010&base_name=jerry_brown_wants_california_t). Mostly just because it's a perfect one-liner attached to a filler campaign ad.

[Calistas]

How to defeat Big Brother (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GHVgqiztPc). Interesting watch. His comments at the start reminded me of how odd I found shopping in the US with the constant requests for my details to put in their databases. I just would say "no thanks", smile, and watch the staff look confused.

And an awesome old vid explaining Fox News. Awesome (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aEk864YrKw&NR=1).

[Marcus]

I think these belong here

http://www.youtube.com/user/RSMAshow#p/c/B477972F4F6D0C03/10/w4U2Y1iotA4

[Anti-Bunny]

TV attack ads from 1800 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_zTN4BXvYI)

[frank austin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

RSA Animates Sir Ken Robinson talking about education.

[Anti-Bunny]

The cutest little terrorists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e04EYw5geuI

[kerzain]

Choice: Chocolate Ice Cream vs Aborted Fetus (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa-DOrhaymc)

[Anti-Bunny]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prglk8wSoMk&feature=player_detailpage#t=128s

[Anti-Bunny]

http://youtu.be/sQi7A5MW2kQ
Well, that's quite a game changer.

[Lh'owon]

Choice: Chocolate Ice Cream vs Aborted Fetus (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa-DOrhaymc)

*twitch* Rather painful to see someone that young transform themselves into a dishonest propagandist.

[Soapyfrog]

*twitch* Rather painful to see someone that young transform themselves into a dishonest propagandist.
I dont think shes being dishonest. Obviously she thinks she's making an unassailable argument. It's just flawed on it's very foundation.

[Anti-Bunny]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V17WGTvPHGg

Makes sense to me.

[Christien Murawski]

That highest rated comment is priceless.

[Which it changed, as of course it would. What a dope. Anyway, the comment in question asked why she was wearing her anal beads around her neck.]


-xtien

[Timex]

The place is named BB... the Governor's name is BB... prior governor of that state made DADT... GOD HATES GAY PEOPLE.

I was gonna discount that lady on account of her fashion sense, but you can't argue with that kind of logic.

[Lh'owon]

I dont think shes being dishonest. Obviously she thinks she's making an unassailable argument. It's just flawed on it's very foundation.

I'd like to think so, but the way she claims certain straw-man arguments are the strongest pro-abortion advocates have seems pretty dishonest to me. That said she'll be surrounded by that sort of bullshit, so perhaps ignorance is more charitable.

[Anti-Bunny]

For Canada:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAD6Obi7Cag

[Talisker]

For Canada:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAD6Obi7Cag
Edited cut of the song: JOKE FAIL

[Anti-Bunny]

Edited cut of the song: JOKE FAIL
thatisthejoke.jpg

[Kurdel]

This video contains content from UMG. It is not available in your country.

BUT CANADA CAN'T SEE IT!!!!

Unless that's the joke :(

[kerzain]

Mall Shopping Canadian Terrorists
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoEae9BtkI4

[Adam Eayrs]

3 terrorists... a day!!!

[Soapyfrog]

Border guards are trained to be assholes. Simply never give them an excuse if you can help it... Sad but there you go.

My favorite quote from a border guard comes from when my friend and I were on our way to wifcon, the world in flames tournament held every year in Michigan. He literally said "is that what you folks want to see, the world in flames?" before pulling us aside for two hour of questioning and a search of the car. And we were 100% polite and cooperative.

Good thing we hadn't brought the America in Flames expansion with us!

[Destarius]

Mall Shopping Canadian Terrorists
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoEae9BtkI4

Well, I think the person who recorded it was an asshole.

[MatthewF]

Well, I think the person who recorded it was an asshole.

I would have been an asshole too the second the border cop told him to get out of the car because he couldn't tell him exactly what store he was going to shop at. Those cops deserved it.

[Lizard_King]

Some high quality patriotism on display here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NutFkykjmbM) from California's finest as they protest a women's shelter fundraiser hosted by a Muslim organization. Alongside elected officials giving the usual boring speeches about multiculturalism you have some flagwaving and just ridiculous heckling. It's never too late to go full Arizona in Orange County.

EDIT: some useful context (http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/fwalx/muslims_hold_a_fundraiser_to_raise_money_for_the/c1j51wn) for how the initial outrage ball got rolling.

[Rasputin]

Some high quality patriotism on display here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NutFkykjmbM) from California's finest as they protest a women's shelter fundraiser hosted by a Muslim organization. Alongside elected officials giving the usual boring speeches about multiculturalism you have some flagwaving and just ridiculous heckling. It's never too late to go full Arizona in Orange County.

EDIT: some useful context (http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/fwalx/muslims_hold_a_fundraiser_to_raise_money_for_the/c1j51wn) for how the initial outrage ball got rolling.

Well, my good mood is spoiled, now. Thanks, LK!

[MatthewF]

Some high quality patriotism on display here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NutFkykjmbM) from California's finest as they protest a women's shelter fundraiser hosted by a Muslim organization. Alongside elected officials giving the usual boring speeches about multiculturalism you have some flagwaving and just ridiculous heckling. It's never too late to go full Arizona in Orange County.

EDIT: some useful context (http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/fwalx/muslims_hold_a_fundraiser_to_raise_money_for_the/c1j51wn) for how the initial outrage ball got rolling.

Seriously, fuck those people.

[Lizard_King]

Well, my good mood is spoiled, now. Thanks, LK!

U S A! U S A!

[Rasputin]

Oh, why don't you just go home?

[Anti-Bunny]

Hey remember that whole Rick Ashley meme in 2007?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZi4JxbTwPo

[Anti-Bunny]

Keynes vs Hayek, Round II (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc)

[Scrax]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hXpOA3jPC04

How Many Gays Must God Create Before We Accept That He Wants Them Around?

[Scrax]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_igfC4Av8_Q

News Bloopers... Obama is dead. It's remarkable how often this happened. That one chick did it like 3 times in a row.

[kerzain]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hXpOA3jPC04

How Many Gays Must God Create Before We Accept That He Wants Them Around?
Hopefully he wants more gays around than harlequin babies.

[Anti-Bunny]

Golden Crocoduck 2011 awards. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO4XvPGdpO8)
I love this stuff

[kerzain]

Gawd. Listening to Creationists trying to validate their incomprehensible perception of the known universe is like watching a bunch of Juggalos reveling in their ignorance of how to take a shit without getting any on their hands and faces.

[Raife]

I'm not a huge fan of Bill Maher, but this is a beautiful takedown (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm9sKNIE5s0).

[Donald L.]

Sarah Palin: Paul Revere Warned The British (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS4C7bvHv2w)

[Abilio Carvalho]

I'm not a huge fan of Bill Maher, but this is a beautiful takedown (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm9sKNIE5s0).

not there anymore

[Anti-Bunny]

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-june-1-2011/me-lover-s-pizza-with-crazy-broad
That was pretty good.

[MatthewF]

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-june-1-2011/me-lover-s-pizza-with-crazy-broad
That was pretty good.

That was glorious.

[Anti-Bunny]

Sarah Palin: Paul Revere Warned The British (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS4C7bvHv2w)

Oh god, apparently I missed this 'controversy'. How can so many people fail at history so hard?

[Pogo]

Ahhh man I love it when Jon gets all NYC.

[Christien Murawski]

I love the way this is produced:

Indecision 2012: The Awakening (http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-june-14-2011/indecision-2012---the-awakening)


-xtien

"Ask them!"

[Lum]

This is a real GOP political ad. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ3B8WvVjL4)

[MatthewF]

This is a real GOP political ad. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ3B8WvVjL4)

I think I've just reached the end of the internet.

*throws hands up and walks out of the room*

[frank austin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYV0M6Y41Go

Becoming a Christian changes your DNA!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWem_KdLVVg

You can also watch the same guy out gay teens while preaching!

[Anti-Bunny]

Really great video from Reason on the coming Medallion taxi regulations in DC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T2912EqJ0U

[Kolonial]

For our conservative-leaning posters feeling left out, Mo Brooks lays the smackdown (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/07/20/msnbc_to_gop_congressman_do_you_have_a_degree_in_e conomics.html) oh so gently on MSNBC's Contessa Fontessa.

[Timex]

Really great video from Reason on the coming Medallion taxi regulations in DC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T2912EqJ0U

Medallion bills do nothing but feed corruption. It'll be ridiculous if those cabbies get forced to rent medallions from connected companies.

[Soapyfrog]

For our conservative-leaning posters feeling left out, Mo Brooks lays the smackdown (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/07/20/msnbc_to_gop_congressman_do_you_have_a_degree_in_e conomics.html) oh so gently on MSNBC's Contessa Fontessa.

OK that was pretty damn funny!!

[JMR]

Gay Barbarian Horde Glitters Bachmann Clinic (http://youtu.be/DCUX5rDPlis)

They're demanding to be disciplined!

[Brettmcd]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ifpEROFT-U&feature=channel_video_title

Chuck Woolery on taxing the rich.

[Soapyfrog]

Individual action renders collective action unnecessary, right? Charity can solve all our problems, an argument strangely advanced only by the most selfish and greedy members of society.

The government doesn't need to help the poor! Someone else will do it I'm sure.

[John Many Jars]

WHy don't we do it in the road? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5RVRbLgGo0&feature=player_embedded)

[Christien Murawski]

This is just fucking embarrassing on every level.

Rumsfeld in heated conversation with Al Jazeera (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiTaAh0W5Is)


-xtien

[Dave Perkins]

Couldn't finish. Ugh.

"It's in your very nature.."

[Two Sheds]

Christ, that was like the worst of our P&R arguments. Round and round and round, just to avoid answering the question.

Just give me an answer.
You're being rude and you suck!
Fine. Just give me an answer to the question.
Why should I?
Because this is an interview. Just give me an answer.
Whatever I bet you cut this whole thing anyway. You call this an interview?

Embarrassing is right.

[Raife]

Molly Erdman as Elizabeth Warren on why she's running for US Senate. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lu61aU4N8mM)

[Jason McCullough]

What in the hell (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kUnzVzyxl0&feature=related)

[Damien Falgoust]

Molly Erdman as Elizabeth Warren on why she's running for US Senate. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lu61aU4N8mM)
That is epic. "I'm Elizabeth Warren, and I'm running for United States Senate to fuck some shit up."

[charmtrap]

Awesome tea party melt-down video that's been making the rounds, brought to you by Rep. Joe Walsh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb73zqY6lZM

"DON'T BLAME THE BANKS!" I'm not sure who he's trying to convince, the woman he's screaming at or himself, but it's quite amusing.

[Destarius]

Awesome tea party melt-down video that's been making the rounds, brought to you by Rep. Joe Walsh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb73zqY6lZM

"DON'T BLAME THE BANKS!" I'm not sure who he's trying to convince, the woman he's screaming at or himself, but it's quite amusing.

Good grief. I'm sure everyone in that bar will NEVER vote for him. Also his argument that it isn't the banks' fault is pretty insane, and he had to shout down the woman who was making sense.

[pg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUA2rDVrmNg wut

[Huzurdaddi]

Perry's meltdown has been awe inspiring. I said before he had been handed the presidency and he just decided not to do the work to hold on to it. Given this latest episode maybe, and I'll be honest I didn't think this was the case, it is possible that he was simply mentally incapable of memorizing tid bits he needed to.

Sad. He should have been weeded out MUCH earlier in his career.

[Christien Murawski]

I love the way Ron Paul looks at him. It reminds me of that SNL skit of the Dukakis/GHWBush debate, where Dana Carvey-as-Bush keeps saying "a thousand points of light" in answer to every question and Jon Lovitz-as-Dukakis finally says, in exasperation, "I can't believe I'm losing to this guy."


-xtien

[charmtrap]

“What is this ‘mac and cheese’? Is that a black thing?” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eyF8__fR8PQ#!)

[Erik J.]

“What is this ‘mac and cheese’? Is that a black thing?” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eyF8__fR8PQ#!)

WTF...hahahahahaha! Oh man, that actually got me laughing. Good one.

[Talisker]

“What is this ‘mac and cheese’? Is that a black thing?” (&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eyF8__fR8PQ#!&quot;)
Just, I mean, uh, wow.

[charmtrap]

You do have to wonder what planet he's from. With the number of church potlucks he must have been to, I can't believe he's never encountered mac & cheese.

[Destarius]

It's a Black thing.

[Anti-Bunny]

http://youtu.be/BVqnUf8NH6g
Alabama state legislature debate on House Bill 266, a bill on legalizing homebrewing.

[Malathor]

Not there haven't been a lot of embarassing Biden videos, but this one has to take the cake. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buRO9TSlScQ)

[ShivaX]

Not there haven't been a lot of embarassing Biden videos, but this one has to take the cake. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buRO9TSlScQ)

You wanna see embarrassing look at the comments.

And I don't think Biden talking about someone most people don't know is all that gaffe-worthy compared to his usual stupidity.

[charmtrap]

http://youtu.be/BVqnUf8NH6g
Alabama state legislature debate on House Bill 266, a bill on legalizing homebrewing.

Your government hard at work, ladies and gentlemen. You really don't even have to have a functioning brain to be a state representative, do you?

[Erik J.]

Not about any particular candidate or anything, but he expresses a lot of opinions that are probably shared here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=G4yDCUJJm_U#!

[charmtrap]

Obama goes after Romney:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inxnx2fPg2g

He may not be the ultra-lefty crusader that some people want, but he's a hell of a campaigner.

[Destarius]

Obama goes after Romney:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inxnx2fPg2g

He may not be the ultra-lefty crusader that some people want, but he's a hell of a campaigner.

I am trying to figure out why I find Obama do much more persuasive and charismatic than any of the GOP candidates. Is it the manner of delivery or do the GOP really suck that much? The only thing I've liked thus far from the GOP field this time out is how Gingrich killed the debate question of his ex-wife.

[Pogo]

He's in charismatic form in that video. It's the same form that lets him crush people in debates and casual interviews most of the time. FOX News spent a lot of time trying to make people believe that he needs a teleprompter to be a great speaker, but his ability to speak as if he wasn't insulting your intelligence has always been there.

Bush had a similar charismatic gift, except his language and tone didn't have the wit or intelligence so he resonated more with the retarded monkeys that make up half this country than with actual human beings.

[Destarius]

He's in charismatic form in that video. It's the same form that lets him crush people in debates and casual interviews most of the time. FOX News spent a lot of time trying to make people believe that he needs a teleprompter to be a great speaker, but his ability to speak as if he wasn't insulting your intelligence has always been there.

Bush had a similar charismatic gift, except his language and tone didn't have the wit or intelligence so he resonated more with the retarded monkeys that make up half this country than with actual human beings.

Yes, it's something on a personal level; Obama's like the guy I could sit and talk with, and feel as if he also really wanted to spend time.

I just feel with Gingrich and Romney they'd be pretending to enjoy the conversation or they'd get impatient really quickly.

There's something in the way that they deliver which doesn't sit well with me in terms of their ability to care for others as human beings.

[John Many Jars]

I can't believe I'm the first person to post this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7pv7sO5Gng

[John Many Jars]

Reagan calls for an open border and work permits!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixi9_cciy8w

[charmtrap]

Epic Obama infomercial, narrated by Tom Hanks, directed by Davis Guggenheim. It's really good, actually.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2POembdArVo

[Pogo]

Scott Brown (R-MA) takes a jab at Santorum's new use of "protection" in the form of secret service agents. (http://youtu.be/hMIqfTdmZww)

[charmtrap]

Muslims, Buddhists, Mormons, atheists, queers, GET OUT (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=B2emBxDOY7g).

I know it should hardly be surprising to see mainstream Republican presidential candidates applauding bigotry at this late date, but it's still pretty awful.

[Two Sheds]

Crazy old world when Jeremiah Wright is a RADICAL PASTOR and this guy isn't.

[ShivaX]

Crazy old world when Jeremiah Wright is a RADICAL PASTOR and this guy isn't.

Wright specifically said bad things about America, therefore he is bad.
This dude just lied about what America is, which is perfectly fine.

[Destarius]

Epic Obama infomercial, narrated by Tom Hanks, directed by Davis Guggenheim. It's really good, actually.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2POembdArVo

Thanks for posting this. This is the standard political ads should aspire to.

[JD]

Gotta admit that Will The Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up (http://youtu.be/bxch-yi14BE) is catchy.

EDIT: Awww, I see it's already been linked to in the GOP thread.

[RichVR]

Santorum calls Obama the N-word? (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/mar/30/rick-santorum-slip-n-word) You decide.

[Destarius]

Haha! Obama the government nigga. Between this and backpedalling on saying "Black people" in Iowa, I'm fairly sure he's a closet racist.

[Malathor]

GSA develops governmentwide regulations and policies that encourage agencies to use the best, most cost-effective management practices. (http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/21219)


http://youtu.be/CL-fZKxINdA


Ahahaha.

[Jason McCullough]

GSA employees aren't allowed to make jokes, apparently, judging by the comments.

[Christien Murawski]

'P-E-N-I-S goes into the anus to rupture intestines' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nMANMIe0ZZI)

Homespun wisdom for life. Tough to argue with this level of common sense.


-xtien

[spacemonkey]

'P-E-N-I-S goes into the anus to rupture intestines' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nMANMIe0ZZI)

Homespun wisdom for life. Tough to argue with this level of common sense.


-xtien

I want to tell you this?

[Soapyfrog]

I love the facepalm behind her.

[Dave Perkins]

Is she judge floro?

[Tortilla]

'P-E-N-I-S goes into the anus to rupture intestines' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nMANMIe0ZZI)

Homespun wisdom for life. Tough to argue with this level of common sense.


-xtien

That woman is legitimately mentally ill. However our local city council meetings have a rule that any citizens who shows up and wants to speak gets their allotted time, so they let the crazy person talk.

[Brad Wardell]

The left's counter argument to right-wing positions: Shut up (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWHgUE9AD4s).

[charmtrap]

Couldn't that guy actually find some video or at least quote an example of someone actually being shut up by eeeevil leftists? Or is straw men pretty much all he had?

I assume you were posting that ironically.

[Brad Wardell]

Couldn't that guy actually find some video or at least quote an example of someone actually being shut up by eeeevil leftists? Or is straw men pretty much all he had?

I assume you were posting that ironically.

Heh. I've gotten it personally enough. I'll post a 3 paragraph response to be met with a one line statement that I either (a) am racist (b) don't care about the poor or (c) am evil.

[charmtrap]

Heh. I've gotten it personally enough. I'll post a 3 paragraph response to be met with a one line statement that I either (a) am racist (b) don't care about the poor or (c) am evil.

Yeah, but that's not telling you to shut up, that's just name-calling and you can roundfile that pretty quickly. Unless they have direct evidence that you hate Jews or something, then who gives a shit?

As to the video, I think that guy is mislabeling dislike for his views as being forced to shut up. Since when is a little political mud-slinging something conservatives are afraid of? Dare I say, maybe you guys on the right should "man up" a little?

[Brad Wardell]

I dunno, when people start accusing people of racism, fascism, bigotry, homophobia, etc. the discussion is at an end.

[Ed Solomon]

Don't be such a baby, Wardell. Dawn Falcon accused me of just about all of those on this very board and you don't see me crying about it. And I'm an Obama Democrat.

[AaronSofaer]

I dunno, when people start accusing people of racism, fascism, bigotry, homophobia, etc. the discussion is at an end.


Solution: Put the person on ignore and move on. Dawn Falcon isn't exactly a sane man.

[Brad Wardell]

Don't be such a baby, Wardell. Dawn Falcon accused me of just about all of those on this very board and you don't see me crying about it. And I'm an Obama Democrat.

I'm not talking about qt3. I'm pretty sure the guy who made the YouTube video isn't familiar with our forum. ;)

What the video is pointing out is that quite often, the left will try to shut down the discussion by dismissing the other side as racists or mcarthyites or facists, etc.

The reason I participate in discussions here is because we can have real debates.

You guys gotta admit, the discussions we ave together are quite a bit higher quality than say what you get with some half informed relative at thanksgiving or whatever.

[Tortilla]

What the video is pointing out is that quite often, the left will try to shut down the discussion by dismissing the other side as racists or mcarthyites or facists, etc.

I'm not buying that. The unfortunate reality is that America does have a long history of people using very facile and dishonest tactics to prettify some very hateful motives that underly various political proposals. Sometimes a racist/homophobic/generally hateful idea is just that, and needs to be clearly confronted as such. For example, letting someone else dictate the terms of debate and argue that their anti-gay initiatives are actually "pro-family" when they have no obvious "pro-family" initiatives or concerns beyond gay bashing is just a way of conceding defeat.

Yes, there are bad eggs on both sides who will try to shout down anyone who isn't in complete agreement but I don't believe there's any evidence that the modern America political left is some overusing accusations of racism or fascism or whatnot to shut down debate.

[Brad Wardell]

Then we'll just have to disagree on that. The race card gets used so routinely that it has become something of a joke at this point.

On the gay marriage thing, as someone who isn't religious, I have a hard time empathizing with why we're supposed to care if gay couples get married. But I am loath to ascribe hate as the motive to opposition to it.

Just because I don't understand why people would oppose it doesn't mean that those who do have some really base motivation.

[Ed Solomon]

I'm not talking about qt3. I'm pretty sure the guy who made the YouTube video isn't familiar with our forum. ;)


Fair enough. I think I've just got in the habit of telling people to stop being babies. I have to use it with my kids when they complain the potato chips aren't crispy enough or the corn chips aren't salty enough or we are out of raspberry jam and they have to use sour cherry.

[Tortilla]

Then we'll just have to disagree on that. The race card gets used so routinely that it has become something of a joke at this point.


Yes, we disagree on that. Some people do overplay that argument, but there are people all across the spectrum of political beliefs that use dishonest arguments to try and shut down the debate. Saying that the race card is overplayed is no more true than saying that "think of the children" or other such arguments is overplayed. The problem is dishonest discourse, which is a wider problem than any one ideological grouping.



On the gay marriage thing, as someone who isn't religious, I have a hard time empathizing with why we're supposed to care if gay couples get married. But I am loath to ascribe hate as the motive to opposition to it.

Just because I don't understand why people would oppose it doesn't mean that those who do have some really base motivation.

Would you make the same argument in regards to the large amounts of people opposed to civil rights for minorities just a generation or two ago?

[Brad Wardell]

Would you make the same argument in regards to the large amounts of people opposed to civil rights for minorities just a generation or two ago?

No. Because those who opposed civil rights were generally pretty explicit that they thought blacks were inferior.

By contrast, it's religious people (of all colors) that seem most against gay marriage.

[AaronSofaer]

I dunno, the religious seem, in my experience, pretty explicit about their homophobia.

[Brad Wardell]

I dunno, the religious seem, in my experience, pretty explicit about their homophobia.

My understanding is that they think it's a sin.

I dunno though. Like I said, I can't relate to the religious thing. Once you're talking about magic super beings and people coming back from the dead or whatever I can't empathize.

And I don't mean that disrespectfully. I sincerely wish I was a believer. But I'm not.

But at the same time, I'm not willing to ascribe "hate" or "fear" as the motive here.

I tend to think that it's none of the government's business what consenting adults do as long as it's not infringing on someone else's rights.

[Tortilla]

No. Because those who opposed civil rights were generally pretty explicit that they thought blacks were inferior.


The anti-gay people are pretty explicit that they think homosexual people are inferior and that we need "protecting" from them. The "defense" in the defense of marriage act wasn't defense against terrorists.

[John Many Jars]

Opposition to gays' right to marry *is* opposition to a civil right. "Civil" in this context doesn't mean "race-based," but "state/law-based."

[Brad Wardell]

The anti-gay people are pretty explicit that they think homosexual people are inferior and that we need "protecting" from them. The "defense" in the defense of marriage act wasn't defense against terrorists.

I know a lot of people who are against gay marriage. Most Americans are against it.

I don't understand where their position comes from. But I'm not willing to ascribe hatred to it.

I want to understand it so I could debate it. But I don't. It's like "faith". I don't understand it. I wish I did.

[AaronSofaer]

I know a lot of people who are against gay marriage. Most Americans are against it.


Depends on how you ask the questions, actually, and how you categorize various answers.

[Brad Wardell]

Depends on how you ask the questions, actually, and how you categorize various answers.

True. You can get a majority in favor of the same effective thing if you call it "Civil Union".

That's why I don't want to ascribe hateful motives to those against gay marriage because they in turn favor civil unions even when it means the exact same legal rights.

Is it a trademark thing or what?

[AaronSofaer]

True. You can get a majority in favor of the same effective thing if you call it "Civil Union".

That's why I don't want to ascribe hateful motives to those against gay marriage because they in turn favor civil unions even when it means the exact same legal rights.

Is it a trademark thing or what?


It doesn't actually mean the same legal rights unless you enact it at a federal level.

Also, calling interracial marriages "civil unions" would not have been sufficient for the Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia, so I don't see why it should be sufficient for gay marriage.

Finally, those demographics and states which the liberal establishment (ahahaha, oh man, I made a funny) asserts stand in the way of gay marriage also stand clearly against civil unions. I'M LOOKING AT YOU HERE, NORTH CAROLINA, YOU BUNCH OF HATEFUL FUCKS.