Where was this guy when all of NYC went bonkers from one missing snake?

Hey I just want to say I think this is a fairly healthy conversation.

For example I love Beck but he's a scientologist, and, without wanting to offend more sifters, that's CLEARLY bonkers. Hubbard's on record during his pulp sci-fi days saying 'if you want to make real money start a religion'. Then he did. And Beck's a genius but he was brought up that way and he can't extract it from his self-identity (or doesn't want to, I don't know him so I don't know).

Doesn't mean I don't love Beck and wouldn't want to upset him or make him miserable. Same to the religious sifters. Any vim around here (trying to match braggart..:) is rage against entrenched and abused power, and sorry, any major religion is guilty of that.

I have some problems with Hitchens (IRAQ!) but he's a clear thinking dialectic who will listen and respond logically. He loves to fight which is good and bad (mostly good in my book:) The English Christian establishment tried to force it on him as a kid and he's been firing back ever since.

Here's another clip from the same event that explains his anger (and that of some here I think):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoH5OFzRbRo (sorry sound is screwy)

And, if you want to see what these guys are really about, for better or for worse, have a look at this high profile debate in London when the English establishment tried to get a handle on it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCdnh7G87m4

Peace out.

EDIT: and this one because it just broke my heart:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwDYbNIHyN0
>> ^bamdrew:

blech. a nasty board accompanying an interesting video...

I have just reviewed this several times in deference to your observations/perceptions. I'm sorry, but I discern no expression changes at all start to finish, no whisker movement, blinking, nostril dilation, etc. There is an artifact of a shifting nature however. Notice the movement of the object. It is purely vertical. Quite unnatural. Originally, I perceived it to be possibly 2D because of the rigid unnatural movement up and down.

With all due respect, however, I could be bonkers. Well, that may be beside the point.

Enjoy.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^chicchorea:
Ya'll do know it's not a real cat, right?

Looks real...it makes very subtle individual facial and eye movements that you can see. So if it's a puppet it's better than any puppet I've ever seen ever, must have a bout 20 servos in it's face.

I remember seeing swarms as a kid in a local mountain. I went bonker and caught them to bring home.

There's something to admire about this. It isn't that much different to what you're doing when plugging in earphones and blocking off environmental noise - it just makes you look completely and utterly bonkers.

Delightfully bonkers dog.

Japanese anime is RARLY (Rawly?) off the wall and strange. I can't really remember any in rescent memory (im an avid fansub watcher). It's their TV showes that are wacked out bonkers!

Chiropractors who perform manual manipulation can cause a lot more issues than they can solve if they aren't well practiced or very careful. Even the ones who don't perform them (there are many who refuse to do manual manipulation), and use purely machine based treatment (VAX-D, etc), can sometimes be a little seedy. My wife works for one (she performs the rehab, post-treatment) and sees traits like that all the time in the industry. The problem though is that a lot of people she sees are in a huge amount of pain, and even temporary to short term relief is better than nothing. We're not talking an aching back, "oh it hurts when I bend over" type pain, we're talking constant agonizing, please kill me, back pain. Most of them will be confined to very potent opiates to deal with the pain for the rest of their life, and it's actually sort of horrible. Some other options are also equally problematic (fusing the discs in your spine, etc), and while that can help, can cause a host of other issues.

The biggest problem with chiropractors are some honestly believe they can cure everything with a proper adjustment, when in reality they can usually at most just help or relieve a problem. I think some doctor claiming that adjusting babies is a good idea is completely bonkers.

"God's Hand"

lol WTF! This is totally bonkers.

She sure is bonkers... I'll give you that.

Oh God, I got so bored. I wanted to see someone get in and out of that thing and madly jumped around trying to find such a thing. That stupid non-resolving music drove me freaking bonkers.

I just want to see the car work, not be bored to death.

And Coraline WAS a lot of fun.

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>> ^K0MMIE:
you're all fucking bonkers, this looks like a lot of fun.


coraline looked like a lot of fun. as much as i'd like to be optimistic about this one, it has a lot of room to be shit. lets just cross our fingers

>> ^Xaielao:
This is just TWO MONTHS into the new presidency. They've been out of power for two whole months. I cant wait to see how completely bonkers they've gone after 2 years.


It is still a dangerous time. The far right could use the new depression as a means of fomenting support for some polemic dictator-type.

Hell, I bet that there are some who feel that Obama is that polemic. I only hope that they're wrong, and the current administration is smart enough to destroy the giant, opaque investment banking monopolies that are destroying the world. (by breaking them into smaller, more transparent entities)

Also can I say how much I'm enjoying republicans (and more-so hard-core conservatives,) have gone practically schizophrenic in the now 2 months since the Obama administration has taken over?

Go flip on the fox news channel and watch some of the more hard-core guys and gals on there. They are all going crazy. One of them is crying because the country is going socialist. Another thinks Obama wasn't born in the US so he's a pretend president.. it gets more and more ridiculous with each passing day there.

This is just TWO MONTHS into the new presidency. They've been out of power for two whole months. I cant wait to see how completely bonkers they've gone after 2 years.

>> ^K0MMIE:
you're all fucking bonkers, this looks like a lot of fun.


coraline looked like a lot of fun. as much as i'd like to be optimistic about this one, it has a lot of room to be shit. lets just cross our fingers