Everyone should appreciate the life and work of Nelson Mandela

You beat me to it Joe2, these videos always make me channel my inner Nelson.

"HAW HAW!" - nelson on the simpsons

the dude seemed a little strange but when that dude grabbed him in a full nelson i was hoping he was armed, he should have killed all those motherfuckers "turn the camera off, we're winning" and no one does shit, and then as soon as he starts winning everyone yells

fuck all those reporters

Every time I hear horror stories like this on a number of subjects I always slightly feel like Nelson from the Simpsons, pointing my finger at America and saying HAHA. But then I think of all the human misery it causes and feel a little sad.

Some of the notable peace prize winners from my lifetime, there's a lot more than Jimmy Carter and Al Gore. Sorry Joe but not everything on Earth is about hating Bush or America:

MARTTI AHTISAARI
KIM DAE JUNG
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS (MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES)
JOHN HUME
CARLOS FELIPE XIMENES BELO and JOSE RAMOS-HORTA
YASSER ARAFAT
SHIMON PERES
YITZHAK RABIN
NELSON MANDELA
AUNG SAN SUU KYI
MIKHAIL SERGEYEVICH GORBACHEV
ELIE WIESEL
DESMOND MPILO TUTU
LECH WALESA
MOHAMED ANWAR AL-SADAT
MENACHEM BEGIN
BETTY WILLIAMS
MAIREAD CORRIGAN

This guy is Nabil Shaban - Writer, Director, Actor and Film maker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabil_Shaban
http://uk.geocities.com/jinghiz53/

Nabil Shaban was born in 1953 in Amman, Jordan and arrived in England when he was three for treatment for his osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle-bone disease). In 1980, he and Richard Tomlinson founded Graeae (pronounced Grey Eye), a professional theatre company of disabled performers.

A writer and performer with many film and television credits, he is probably best known to television viewers for his role as ruthless intergalactic businessman Sil in the Doctor Who stories 'Vengeance on Varos' and 'Trial of a Timelord' (BBC, 1985 and 1986).

Nabil Shaban is a political actor and has worked in Theatre Workshop plays about Palestine, and about the State murder of Northern Ireland lawyer, Rosemary Nelson. He also acted and collaborated in Ghazi Hussein’s 'One Hour Before Sun Rise' in 2006, about the journey of a young poet named Moneer and his torture in a Syrian prison.

Shaban, who has a degree in Psychology and Philosophy, was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1997 from the University of Surrey for the achievements of his career and his work to change public perceptions of disabled people.
http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/artsinscotland/drama/features/archive/profilenabilshaban.aspx

^ You mean nelson?

it just dawned on me that some of you are old and may not understand what theyre saying. heres their accurate description of how awesome it is to be from texas:

Humidity doesn't bother me
Neither does the pouring rain
Cause 5 minutes later it's better or worse
But it never stays the same

It's hot and it's dusty
My armpits are musty
and my cowboy hat is soaked
A man on a three wheeled bike
sets me up with a 50 cent snow cone

At a quarter to two eatin' Mexican food
Free chips and beans and rice
SMILE WHEN YOU SAY TEXAS
And everything will be alright

We've got Willie Nelson
And Serial Killers
And King Of The Hill
And the moonshine distillers
And Texas is the only place to have killed
The president in his car
Heavy laws for petty crimes
Paying off probation fees
A system designed to fuck you up
That's why our prisons are our
fastest growing indusrty (fuck the system)

In 1980 John Travolta
Filmed Urban Cowboy here
Lookin' for love in all the wrong places
And drinking Gilley's beer

In the basement of the Alamo
We've got Pee Wee Hermans Bike

FUCK YA'LL WE'RE FROM TEXAS
Where the stars are big and bright
All night
Yee-Haw

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/04/ben-nelson-personally-cal_n_250801.html

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Blanky, go look up neoliberal, it doesn't mean what you want it to mean.

If I were in your shoes, I'd be trying to buddy up to progressives.

For one, we're destroying the faux-conservative Republican party, exposing them for the crackpot radical authoritarians they have been since Nixon. Every success we make in that area means there are an increasing number of right-leaning independents frustrated with the Republicans, and distrustful of Democrats...prime candidates for winning over to either a Libertarian reshaping of the Republican party, or support for the existing Libertarian party.

Appeal to progressives for help with this, because if the Republican party becomes the Libertarian party, the entire anti-war and civil-rights segments of the Democratic party platform will get their agendas passed with 80 votes in the Senate.

If we can use Libertarians as reasonable alternatives to proto-Republican Democrats (Arlen Specter, Ben Nelson, etc.), it'll either result in more Libertarian seats for you, or more progressive Democrats for me.

Once it's just Democrats vs. Libertarians, then the only thing separating the two parties is their outlook on economic policy. If you're right about the nature of economics, all of our policies will lead to clear and obvious disaster, and people will flock to your party in droves.

And then it's just libertarians arguing with each other over whether there needs to be a state, or whether private services could take over police, fire, and road duty. Then I would be left in despair, taking pleasure only in teasing you about being an evil left-wing statist for arguing in favor of the existence of a state, and refusing to "let freedom work".

Just a little free political advice from me on how to help the libertarian party. I fully expect you to ignore it, but I think it's worth planting the idea in your head that maybe you'll attract more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Otherwise, I'll be there to remind you in 40 years of the good old days when a center-right party like the 2009 Democrats were considered the left-wing party, while you're crying into your feeding tube, provided by the government run universal health care plan, and paid for by Medicare.

Yes, that is the wrong impulse. The correct impulse is (in Nelson voice) "Ha Ha!"

^How do you know Nelson is a Republican?

Wow, could Nelson be any more dense? He clearly doesn't understand the meaning of "taxation without representation" and he completely missed the point of Chayefsky's "Network." Is Howard Beale really his role model here? Really?? And the whole "what other way could little ol' me possibly protest these policies I don't like?" Well, let's see, you're a celebrity, bud! Not a huge one, but you sure can get your opinions out in front of more folks than the rest of us. I may have heard of a celebrity or two who uses their fame to publicize their pet cause. But no, this idea of firing people up to not pay their taxes as a way to show their love for veterans and teachers sounds absolutely brilliant. And does anyone really believe Nelson is going to go through with this and sit in jail as a Republican martyr? Gah, the idiocy level has reached the point that I AM MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE! Oh, sorry, I meant to steal this quote from "Network:"
"[FOX is] not a respectable network. [They're] a whorehouse network, and [they] have to take whatever [they] can get."