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Tag Archives: youtube
Penalty of Vision
One of the finer moments from Carl Sagan’s old Cosmos series, the persecution of Kepler.
Flight of the Flightless
Boy, I love this charming ad for the Washington state secret tax on the poor lottery.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged ad, advertising, birds, flight, flightless, marketing, poor, tax, video, Washington Lottery, youtube
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Biden: Clinton Better
Joe Biden says Hillary Clinton would have been a better pick than himself. A little amusing naturally, but I’m impressed by the candor and humility of it. Fine characteristics for a serving vice president who is expected to exert substantial … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Clinton, election, foreign policy, Hillary Clinton, humility, Joe Biden, vice president, video, youtube
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Bomb Philosophy
9/11 Denial comedic interlude of the day. I’d say we’re approaching a existential bomb philosophy moment with Andrew Kornkven and those of similar sentiment. One in which absolutely everything becomes a manufactured illusion to justify hidden purposes. A cynic might … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged 9/11 denial, Andrew Kornkven, bomb philosophy, conspiracy theorists, contheories, cynicism, Dark Star, existentialism, illusion, Philosophy, truthers, video, youtube
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Sarah Palin in the Green Room
Sarah on babysitting, energy independence and CS Lewis in the Charlie Rose Green Room:
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008
Tagged babysitting, Charlie Rose, CS Lewis, energy independence, Green Rose, national security, Palin, Sarah Palin, video, youtube
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Those Vultures
This is more for Lance than anyone else.
War Crimes Live
Georgian television reporter Tamara Urushadze gets shot by a Russian sniper as she delivered a live report near Gori. Tough girl, she finishes the report without a tear.
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Media
Tagged Georgia, girl, Gori, journalism, live, Media, reporter, Russia, sniper, Tamara Urushadze, television, tough, video, youtube
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Targeting the “Original Maverick”
(photo: WBEZ Chicago Public Radio | site) Obama’s newish McSame style attack ad mocking McCain’s “original maverick” slogan is fairly good. As Ken Wheaton notes, all the time McCain had to spend trying to convince the GOP he was a … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008
Tagged ad, Bush, change, Clintons, democratic, Democrats, equalitarianism, GOP, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, inequality, Karl Rove, Ken Wheaton, McCain, McSame, Obama, Repubican, Republican, rugged individualism, video, videotape, voters, youtube
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Life Under Stalinism
Video clip of victims of the Terror recounting their experiences at the hands of the secret police. The levity that many exhibit in revisiting the systematic decimation of human dignity they experienced, is the ageless strength of Russia as a … Continue reading
Posted in History, Lee's Page
Tagged documentary, Eric Bogosian, Great Terror, History, secret police, Soviet Union, Stalin, stalinism, victims, video, youtube, Zareh Tjeknavorian
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F–k It.
The way to travel. (via Adverbox)
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged 10 Cane, ad, advertising, rum, Travel, video, youtube
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Dissonance Control in Political Paranoia
(photo: companyink) After writing about the Ronpaulist fear mongering of Jordan Page, and then reading Lance’s splendid post on the latest contheorist pandering of Glenn Greenwald, a common insight has reoccurred to me: the absurd amount of cognitive dissonance conditional … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Domestic Politics, Glenn Greenwald's Carnival of Fisking, Lee's Page, Uncategorized
Tagged ammunition, car bomb, Christopher Hitchens, cognitive dissonance, compartmentalism, contheorist, cynicism, Daniel Dennett, Four Horsemen, Glenn Greenwald, government, improbable politics, intelligence, Jordan Page, NSA, paranoia, realism, resistance, Richard Dawkins, Ronpaulism, Sam Harris, Twinkies, underground, video, youtube
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Defending the Second World War
Here’s a five part Uncommon Knowledge segment featuring a superb pairing of Christopher Hitchens and Victor Davis Hanson, to discuss the new World War II revisionism led by Pat Buchanan. While it’s an entertaining exercise for a Saturday, I’ll warn … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged Christopher Hitchens, fascism, History, Pat Buchanan, Peter Robinson, revisionism, Uncommon Knowledge, Victor Davis Hanson, video, World War II, youtube
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What Jack Kemp is About
Jack Kemp calls himself “a progressive conservative, Democratic Republican” these days apparently. Who knows what the hell that means.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged conservative, Democrat, Jack Kemp, progressive, Republican, youtube
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Thuggery for Obama?
Wow. They beat the crap out of this elderly school teacher, because she chanted for Hillary at the Rules & Bylaws Committee meeting: video. (via FDL). I suppose that’s one way to put down internal insurrection. Not a very good … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Democrats, Hillary Clinton, meeting, Obama, rules and bylaws, thuggery, video, violence, youtube
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Harriet and the Spies
Politics makes for strange bedfellows. Vowing to vote McCain, an outspoken, paranoid and hopefully drunk Hillary supporter gets tossed out of the Democratic Rules & Bylaws Committee meeting, raving about race and CIA surveillance: video.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged CIA, democratic, Domestic Politics, drunk, harriet, Hillary Clinton, McCain, meeting, Obama, paranoid, rules and bylaws committe, spies, surveillance, video, youtube
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Bill Clinton’s Laws of Politics
Video flashback from 2004. Bill Clinton:”If one candidate is appealing to your fears and the other one is appealing to your hopes…” You know where that’s going. Ahem. Clearly these were not carved in stone. (HT: BigDog)
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged 2004, Bill Clinton, Domestic Politics, election, fear, Hillary, hope, laws, video, youtube
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Pompeii Against Allah?
photo: Martin Dixon Here’s a grim laugh for your Friday morning. A Muslim propaganda video which preposterously seeks to explain the death and burial of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the 1st century, as the result of the wrath of Allah … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Africa, Herculaneum, islam, Muslim, Pompeii, propaganda, Saudi Arabia, sex, slavery, Vesuvius, video, volcno, youtube
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Errors in Modern Gender
Meet Alan Finch (video report). Alan became Helen Finch at 21, through sexual reassignment surgery…and then became Alan again when he was thirty. As you can see above, the results of his original surgery were extraordinarily effective. But Alan has … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Alan Finch, Australia, cbc, doctor, gender, gender identity disorder, Health Care, Law, man, psychotherapist, psychotherapy, sexual reassignment, surgery, teenager, transgender, treatment, video, woman, youtube
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Pick Flick
Hillary is Tracy Flick. HT: All of it
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Alexander Payne, film, Hillary Clinton, movie, Slate, Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick, video, youtube
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A Boy and His Hero
You don’t have to be Colombian for this beautiful advertisement to touch your heart.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged advertisement, advertising, boy, Colombia, Ejército de Colombia, hero, military, solider, video, youtube
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The Warden
I am really enjoying the cinematic PETA ads depicting KFC’s Colonel Sanders as an evil prison warden abusing anthropomorphic chicken men. This one in particular is hilarious. The premise and message is too ridiculous to take seriously as any kind … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged animal rights, Asia, chicken, Colonel Sanders, Humor, katana, Kentucky Fried Chicken, KFC, peta, prison, samurai, video, warden, youtube
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The Practicality of Barack
At some point along the way Obama became the pragmatist’s choice. Hillary used to own that territory when concerns turned to electability, but that’s all over with now. Perception is as PoliticalBuzz puts it, “Obama is someone who can rally … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged base, Ben Weyl, Clinton, Cuban, electability, guerrilla, Hillary, Judith Gayle, left, leftwing, Obama, political, progressives, video, youtube
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Deceptive Introductions
Isn’t it unfortunate when a truly awful movie has a truly spectacular intro.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Cold War, intro, Moscow, movie, Red Heat, Soviet Union, video, youtube
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Barren Politics
The vacuous Draft Bloomberg movement has made a viral video. I have no idea how this is supposed to make me support him. I’m not sure they even know why they support him. No policy proposals, no platform, no definable … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Bloomberg, draft, elections, Ross Perot, video, viral video, youtube
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Brezhnev Rap
Fabulous video of scenes in the Soviet Union in 1983. From the author: “We entered Moscow with a tourist visa, a tiny super8 camera, b/w film material and a nice piece of hashish. we wanted to know how Moscow did … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged 1983, film, hashish, Leonid Brezhnev, Moscow, movie, rap, Soviet Union, super8, youtube
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Signal to Noise
If like Keith and myself you were in doubt as to whether there were boos among the introductory applause for John McCain at CPAC (apart from this obvious moment), be not in doubt.
The New Media Zombie Apocalypse
image: Dead Central (see alternate posters at ZNN) George Romero is evidently taking on the dynamics of social networking and new media culture, in his latest apocalyptic zombie film Diary of the Dead. George, in an interview for the AP: … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Culture, Lee's Page, Media
Tagged Blogs, Diary of the Dead, entertainment, film, George Romero, Hitler, horror, Michael Moore, movie, myspace, new media, social networking, undead, youtube, zombies
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A Witness in Mauritania
Israel Matzav has a video clip of a report on the Al Qaeda attack on the Israeli embassy in Nouakchott, Mauritania. You have to lament for the investigation when your eye witness refers to the scene of the attack as … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged al Qaeda, attack, crime, embassy, Israel, Mauritania, Nouakchott, Terrorism, video, youtube, zionist
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Counter Coulter
Video of Ann Coulter endorsing Hillary Clinton and pledging to campaign for her. Perhaps a worse political catastrophe for Team Hillary than drivers licenses for illegals.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Ann Coulter, Hillary Clinton, illegals, video, youtube
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Conservative Trash Television
Do you remember in the 80s when there were these bizarre quasi-political trash shows with psychopathic screaming hosts on television and the radio? They were something like a combination of Rush Limbaugh and Jerry Springer. Here’s video of two of … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged 1980s, Jerry Springer, Morton Downey Jr., Rebecca De Mornay, Risky Business, Rush Limbaugh, song, Tangerine Dream, television, trash, video, Wally George, youtube
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Idi Amin’s Uganda
Somewhat dated but excellent documentary on the psychopathic depravity of Amin’s rule. The moment of macabre high comedy, in which Amin declares he has unilaterally withdrawn his army from Tanzania in the name of neighborly brotherhood during the Ugandan – … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Africa, documentary, film, Idi Amin, movie, Tanzania, Uganda, Ugandan-Tanzanian War, video, youtube
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Dreams for Sale
A great short episode from the 1985 revival of The Twilight Zone: Video clip.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged 1985, Dreams for Sale, dystopia, episode, Meg Foster, revival, Science Fiction, The Twilight Zone, video, youtube
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Top 10 Scariest Moments in Soviet Cinema
Some are scary, some aren’t. The last one is pretty terrifying. Video Clip
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged films, horror, movies, scary, soviet cinema, Soviet Union, top 10, youtube
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God’s Own Constitution
Video clip of Mike Huckabee arguing that “what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards.” Hmm. Is that really in accord with anyone’s notion of Founders intent? I know committed social conservatives who … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged , Constitution, elections, God, Mike Huckabee, religion, Republicans, social conservatives, video, youtube
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