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I thought she looked familiar. She was one of the finalists on the first season of The Voice.

just found out that "Fox News is now reporting that President Barack Obama’s just-released new campaign video that previews his new slogan, “Forward,” has “historical ties to Marxism, Socialism.”"

... but then again

"Forward is a leadership position in football, basketball, and rugby. The Forward is also a Jewish-American newspaper. Forward is also the name of several towns in Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Forward is also the name of a truck sold in the U.S. by Isuzu. And Forward is the name of an album recorded by American Idol semi-finalist Ayla Brown.

Interesting that Fox News and the Washington Times didn’t bother to make those sports, journalism, geographic, automotive, or musical references."

More here : http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/fox-news-obama-campaign-slogan-has-ties-to-marxism-socialism/politics/2012/05/01/38787

I am an enormous fan of Sasuke. I even watch the full 4 hour subtitle-free Japanese broadcast every time. Anyone else?

American Ninja Warrior has come a long way from their first year where the finalists competed on the monkey bars at a beach.

>> ^Shepppard:

Wait, isn't this the older of the two brothers that make youtube videos to each other?
I think the other ones name is hank.

Written by: Jack Dreesen, John Ramsey & David Ward

Directed by: David Ward & John Ramsey
Produced by: Jack Dreesen, John Ramsey & David Ward

Starring: Byron Brown

It's an entry for Dorito's Crash the Super Bowl contest. The five finalists are pretty good, but I like this one better.

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ROFL !

>> ^Norsuelefantti:

I believe the real lesson of the story is:

Don't challenge a finn to a sauna contest.

Yeah, you would think that Finland is all about polar bears and reindeer, but right now it's actually so hot that people are practically boiling out here!

>> ^visionep:

If I didn't know better I would call this fake.
Everyone knows that Finland is a land of ice and snow. They can't have beaches with people relaxing in shorts and no shirts.
Helsinki is at a similar parallel to Juneau Alaska.

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i donno. I would rather settle this now than have someone settle it for us. do you have a compromise?


In reply to this comment by Norsuelefantti:
Damn, you have a nicer embed, and a GREAT title! Maybe I should try to *dupe yours and stone-hot plagiarize you? It is technically a bit differently edited clip though... What do you think?

In reply to this comment by marinara:
just like mine. upvote!

Damn, you have a nicer embed, and a GREAT title! Maybe I should try to *dupe yours and stone-hot plagiarize you? It is technically a bit differently edited clip though... What do you think?

In reply to this comment by marinara:
just like mine. upvote!

People tend not to read rules. Honestly, about a year or so before I joined the sift for real, I started an account and self-linked (without knowing that it was an offense). The account disappeared and I had no idea why. A few months later, I did it again. Again, I didn't realize it was an offense, though this time I managed to catch it while it was still in sift talk, and the whole self-linking thing was explained to me. I was still banned, of course.

And to be perfectly honest (because I think I'm pretty safe from being banned at this point when I started this account, it was with the intention of self-linking. I had made a short film for a contest on youtube, and if it had made it as a finalist, I would have needed votes to win. So I figured I would start an account and submit a few random videos, and then no one would be the wiser when I submitted my own film. Ultimately that short film wasn't selected as a finalist, though by then I was hooked on the sift.

Which is to say that not all self-linkers are all that bad -- well, at least a few of them probably aren't assholes like me. I would lean towards not banning self-linkers, but just discarding their self-linked video and giving them a warning. Most probably have no intention of being a part of the community and will disappear anyway, but I would imagine that at least a few might like to stick around.

Christ, the Brits even do disasters classier than Americans. If this was on CNN today, it would have its own theme song, a dance number starring the finalists from American Idol, a "SOCCER DISASTER!" candy bar and John Adams commissioned to write an opera about the whole proceedings.