McCain couldn't get there quick enough to tackle her off the stage before she went off the rails. I would have taken her down right after 'fungible'.

^'Shroom
So.... Barack, despite having an unmarried mother and an irresponsible father, won the democratic nomination for president and looks to be headed towards winning the presidency and becoming the most powerful man in the world. Incredible! That is truly the American dream that I know!

But wait, what is that you say, he lived in the same neighborhood as a former radical, and they served together on the board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based charity that develops community groups to help the poor. Shit! Is it too late to change my vote!?

Estranged broke-ass 26-year-old Muslim half-brother!?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Why, Obama, WHY!?! Why couldn't you have chosen a better father, WHY!!!????

Idiot.

Bill Dan really hates seagulls.

Reminds me of
this excellent American
football substitution.

What, no back flip?

Pffft.

^ Looks more like the work of these guys.

This is crap Keith... small ball... when you report this kind of crap, you sink to the level of O'Reilly or Limbaugh and it is beneath you and it diminishes you. Don't upvote this garbage, please.

Holy crap... how have I not seen some of those? That field goal one is like Randy Johnson hitting a bird with a baseball pitch... I guess it was bound to happen some time. I love the old man side-stepping the rally car, seeming to gently touch the hood.

Great compilation, good sifting!

Dreadful belly dancing... great body... but 17 upvotes? Really? Is the Sift really that stacked with horny Star Wars nerds?

>> ^Sketch:
Come on people! Anyone who's played Risk knows that the greatest threat to America comes from Kamchatka!


Dammit... something really witty that I should have come up with! Very nicely done. You earned that star!

I do believe, however, that Venezuela poses the biggest threat to North America, and Greenland (part of N.A.!?) must be defended against the might buildup of armies in Iceland.

^stellar
I particularly like how you accuse me of being uneducated beyond Wikipedia or Google and go on to state "this and digg are basically the only sources for news for me.", suggesting that the news you get on Digg and the Sift are "relatively unbiased". Seriously? Don't get me wrong... I love them both, but Digg gets most of its news from HuffPost, and most of the news on the Sift is from Comedy Central. Perhaps you should consider other news alternatives occasionally, NPR and BBC for example... but wait... they are both publicly funded... d'oh!

Your basic premise is: If allowed to operate free from government regulation, free markets are the most efficient way to encourage brilliant ideas. People and corporations will operate in the best interests of the population because it is profitable, however... no one in the world tries because we are too stupid. Trust people not government... people are idiots. Brilliant.

>> ^imstellar28:
^bamdrew
there are already free market solutions to pollution, solutions which would greatly reduce the current levels of pollution while at the same time increasing production...you just have never heard of them because you haven't looked.


Excellent... where can I buy one of these? Why aren't they more popular? I googled "free market solution to pollution" and got an episode of Libertarian-occasionally-funny-comedian/magician Penn-and-Teller's "Bullshit" in which they use an ex-GMA weatherman to contradict the general consensus of the world's scientific community and debunk a free-market solution to global warming (carbon credits).

Consider this... if the arguments you propose are really as extraordinary and easy to implement, why isn't everyone using them? There must be some nation operating under the system you are advocating, otherwise, we are all complete fucking morons, right? Which nation is implementing your wisdom?

I always wonder if unregulated free market Libertarians adopt their positions because they are so easy to argue and difficult to refute. If we just let the rich folks decide, everything will work out, because what is good for the world is always profitable, right? I certainly don't get the sense that poor children would be well educated by an open and free market. Rich folks would have big hearts and offer great free education to even those who cannot afford it, because an educated population improves the economic prosperity of a nation in the long term and will eventually benefit my business, right? Sure.
I can't imagine an entire industry deciding that clean air 100 years from now is more important than profits today. Why would they do that? It is all so easy to argue, but until I see it working somewhere, I am suspicious and skeptical of those professing to know that unregulated free-market capitalism works best.

Abe Lincoln attended McCain High. He played power forward for the "Fightin' Mavs", averaging 12 points and 6 rebounds per game.

see it here... the embed is not valid, still looking...
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=130301&title=dr.-katz-jon-stewart