Please don't compare me to your ex-girlfriends. That's just creepy.

Your point here isn't exactly salient. "Shinyblurry, you're evil and stupid and you remind me of my ex girlfriend the she devil and your mind is full of cancer" Well gee I am touched. Do you have anything constructive to say or are you just going to run your mouth?

>> ^shagen454:
You sound like my ex-girlfriend of seven years. Beautiful, super sweet semi-intelligent girl that turned manic-depressive, schizophrenic & super religious. One day I saw it coming and left at dusk. I guess it ran in the family & even though we moved to San Fran from the east coast her background caught up with her somehow. I'm glad I left when I did; I often refer to her as the "she-devil" because super extreme religious folks are evil/hypocritical beings in my opinion. Religion is only but one cancer on your mind; be mindful of not mixing them up.
>> ^shinyblurry:
This is a spiritual issue. Anyone wearing this bracelet is engaging in sorcery, because this is basically magic. This leaves them open to deception from the enemy. The wearers of these bracelet may well be perceiving a tangible benefit because of this spiritual deception. It is just one of the tacts the enemy uses in spiritual warfare, getting people to rely on themselves or magic devices, or things like "the secret".

You sound like my ex-girlfriend of seven years. Beautiful, super sweet semi-intelligent girl that turned manic-depressive, schizophrenic & super religious. One day I saw it coming and left at dusk. I guess it ran in the family & even though we moved to San Fran from the east coast her background caught up with her somehow. I'm glad I left when I did; I often refer to her as the "she-devil" because super extreme religious folks are evil/hypocritical beings in my opinion. Religion is only but one cancer on your mind; be mindful of not mixing them up.

>> ^shinyblurry:

This is a spiritual issue. Anyone wearing this bracelet is engaging in sorcery, because this is basically magic. This leaves them open to deception from the enemy. The wearers of these bracelet may well be perceiving a tangible benefit because of this spiritual deception. It is just one of the tacts the enemy uses in spiritual warfare, getting people to rely on themselves or magic devices, or things like "the secret".

"i dont know where you were on the east coast but when i lived in brooklyn, walmart was trying to get in and the community came out everytime to protest."

I used to live in PA. It was chain stores and outlets for hundreds of miles to Pittsburgh, to Philly, to Baltimore, to New Jersey. I remember my parents loved it. They used to take me to SAMs, one of those Costco-esque places and the immense size of those places used to almost give me a panic attack, as I would repeat in my head "this is what is wrong with world". Even creepier when they pretty much got rid of cashiers. I mean even if I had enough money to buy shitloads of stuff - I wouldn't even have enough space to put away the sort of things you could buy at a place like that. I've only room for like 4 boxes of cereal of hopefully different varieties.

@shagen454
i dont know where you were on the east coast but when i lived in brooklyn, walmart was trying to get in and the community came out everytime to protest.outback made it in and closed within a year because NO ONE went out to eat there.
i loved that about brooklyn.
you didnt go to some chain supermarket for your meats,you went to frank and sals.
you got the best bagels from the corner bakery (forgot the name) or if you wanted homemade tiramsau at 4am you headed to ferreros.
all family run businesses spent the money they made right back in to the community,unlike a corporate chain.

and for those talking about corporations and how great their service is?
pffft (fart noise)
heres a story for you kids concerning the altruism of corporations:
in the 90's there were hundreds of family produce businesses catering to local resturaunts.
nobody would buy from sysco(one the largest rest. supplier).so sysco got together with such companies as allied and usfoods and they literally cut their produce by half.
they sandbagged every family operation.
so when you had the price of a case of lettuce at 10-12 bucks from the family,sysco could get it for you for 6-7 bucks.
that was too sweet a deal for the local eateries and within a year those family businesses were DONE.
and lo and behold that 12$ case of lettuce jumped to 35$ when those families were no longer in the competition.
which of course affected everything from prices to quality.
the corporation has the resources and political might to crush any family run business which leaves us all with the tired vanilla cookie cutter sameness and a lame landscape of chain stores and strip malls.an un-originality that drains the soul and sucks all the color out of any kind of uniqueness that once was the family run business.
most people dont even notice until they find their neighborhood unrecognizable.
people never notice until it directly affects them and THEIR tiny little bubble of existence and THEN it becomes a federal case of persecution.

cry me a river you self-centered twat.

One of the many reasons a decade ago I moved to the West Coast from the East Coast - fucking chain stores & outlets. God damn that shit. Don't get me wrong all that shit is all around the West Coast too - but it's not as prevalent. I mean, in my neighborhood people fought and won against a fucking American Apparel store going in. People have to wake up and fight back, stop being a bunch of cowards.

There aren't even any Starbucks in my neighborhood but there are tons of great coffee places that sell, really immaculately tasting coffee. To get to a Starbucks you'd have to go far, far away to get to one of those those sellout financial neighborhoods and then there's a Starbucks on ever corner and possibly a couple Starbucks per block. There's only one shitty corporation in this humongous neighborhood and that is a McDonald's. I have no idea how they did it.

It doesn't even make any sense. Yeah, if you want to get fat you could spend $7-8 on a shitty burger and some fries and some shitty sugar water or else you could go to one of the two hundred taquerias where you could get the craziest nachos you've ever seen that you'd be crazy to eat all by yourself for $5.50. And you get chips & salsa for free and dammit people, just drink water. It's also free.

Man I like the "West Coast to East Coast" Route 66 style idea of that Need for Speed game, but wow what bonehead came up with the plan to place the action outside of the car in form of quick time events? And who approved that idea??

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

What were the east coast US flags about? I don't remember any revolts besides the ones up north.


The project isn't just about revolts, they track protests for any cause, with any number of people (even less than 100). The only limiting factors are that someone bothers to add the event to the map, and that they can link to a source. If someone bothered to add them, you'd see 6 markers a day from the Westburo Baptist church alone.

Ideally whoever did the timelapse should have removed all the very minor protests (it only tracks maybe 1% of those globally anyway). And also all of the grey signs, those show protest that are over, but took place in the last week. Which is useful for the daily map, but just confusing on a timelapse.

I guess if you're going to get anything out of the timelapse, notice the red and orange signs, those show incidences of fatal violence (red) and serious injury (orange).

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

What were the east coast US flags about? I don't remember any revolts besides the ones up north.


Click the link in the description for a map with links to news reports on the individual protests.

What were the east coast US flags about? I don't remember any revolts besides the ones up north.

East coast music you might like? http://videosift.com/video/Matt-Mays-is-Building-a-Boat

>> ^shagen454:

Man, I still remember it. Sept 11th happened and two weeks later I was on a plane from the East Coast to move to San Francisco. It was a frightful plane ride but once I got here I exhaled deeply. Little did I know that the next seven or eight years would be like the dark ages for America (not in San Francisco though -heh, heh, heh).
The media were the Bush Administrations little lap dogs for nearly the entire time. I remember all the huge protests that happened around the world in the build up to the War in Iraq and how the media treated them. They either did not report on them or made them all seem like a bunch of window smashing anarchists like the ones seem during the WTO protests in Seattle. I remember the day we dropped bombs in Iraq on March 21st 2002. I remember being let out of classes at college to help shut San Francisco down.
We shut it down for five days. Media did not report on it.


I was in San Francisco for that protest.

Man, I still remember it. Sept 11th happened and two weeks later I was on a plane from the East Coast to move to San Francisco. It was a frightful plane ride but once I got here I exhaled deeply. Little did I know that the next seven or eight years would be like the dark ages for America (not in San Francisco though -heh, heh, heh).

The media were the Bush Administration's little lap dogs for nearly the entire time. I remember all the huge protests that happened around the world in the build up to the War in Iraq and how the media treated them. They either did not report on them or made them all seem like a bunch of window smashing anarchists like the ones seen during the WTO protests in Seattle. I remember the day we dropped bombs in Iraq on March 21st 2002. I remember being let out of classes at college to help shut San Francisco down. Some group called ANSWER had organized an event a long time and coming that if we went to war in Iraq, San Francisco would not be "Business as Usual".

I was arrested with several hundred people, thousands had been illegally "detained" - we filed a Class Action Lawsuit with the International Lawyer's Guild against the SFPD and won our case to have charges of "inciting a riot" withdrawn. We won in the court aftermath but the cops still won; they took people out of it one by one and successfully defused the situation - we were peaceful protesters, no one had any sort of revolt on their mind, except for the anarchist kids and they definitely were there, they were a massive thorn for the entire situation.

We shut it down for five days with the help of thousands upon thousands of people and thousands of riot cops. Major media did not report on it. Maybe, it was cliche of San Francisco residents to force the city out of commission for several days but it was newsworthy.

This is a good interview. I appreciate how Rumsfeld is able to steer blame and corruption even in front of Stewart. He's truly a wicked and greedy man.

Interesting. I don't have cable/satellite so I wouldn't know. In fact, I don't think I ever watched TBS shows before.

In reply to this comment by MikesHL13:
Yes, unless it airs more than once. I rarely watch TV, but I've caught segments a little after 8. Doesn't surprise me though; I think the TBS programming works like that in general (based on EST). What the east coast watches at 11, we watch at 8.

In reply to this comment by ant:
Really? I thought TBS airs it at 11:00 PM on pacific time zone.

In reply to this comment by MikesHL13:
Funny. I had debated the "latenight", but here on Pacific Coast (PT) Conan is on about 8pm, so I wasn't sure if that qualified.

In reply to this comment by ant:
*latenight

NBC wouldn't show this.

East Coast band you might like: http://videosift.com/video/Wintersleep-Jaws-of-Life

Leaker doesn't like leaking when it's about himself. Film at 11.

Quite frankly, the U.S. military just needs to man up and stop giving a $#!+ about what other people think about their actions. If there are abuses that are brought to light then they should just handle them internally and tell everyone else to go take a long walk off a short pier.

Chasing around the ever-moving target of public opinion (especially as defined by the East Coast Media Monopoly) is a fruitless, pointless endeavor for a military organization. Here is how a military works when it is trying to actually ACCOMPLISH things...

1. Military decides on an objective.
2. Military goes about accomplishing target objective as quickly & efficiently as possible.
3. Military succeeds.

Here is how a military runs when it wants to repeatedly EPIC FAIL

1. Let civilian politicians and media twerps decide the objectives
2. Constantly redefine objectives to meet the shifting standards of aforementioned politicians & media twerps.
3. Military fails.

The military only needs to say one thing to any reporter. "It's war. People die. Deal with it."