I agree, the media completely slobbers over this shit. I live in Nebraska and when we had the mall shooting in Omaha, I remember reading an article about it where the author seemed utterly gleeful and compared the shooting to us joining an elite club. I wanted to punch the guy.

Banning media coverage from this sort of stuff would have a significant impact I think since they do this to get attention and there is no bigger attention than national media coverage.

I'm sorry, we just don't need to have interviews and tons of photos. It's always the same thing. Of course they're traumatized, of course they're greiving, of course they're shocked. DUH. Even businesses latch on as much as they can use the tragedy as an excuse to post some fake mournful post on facebook/twitter/etc

Buying a couple of lottery tickets is fun. But I see people who clearly don't have much money buying buttloads of tickets, desperately hoping.

I buy lottery tickets myself. Every December. I buy them for my co-workers to scratch off at our annual Christmas dinner. I even buy one for myself, so I can join in the laughter. And I like that some portion of the proceeds goes to schools.

It is the desperate, low income buyers that I ... mourn for.

I misread the announcement. I thought it was saying that we would get power points recharged based on the number of years we were active, which I thought was great.

It doesn't say anything like that -- my reading comprehension skills suck these days.

I must admit that I am also way way bummed by this. Some of us are feral, acquisitive creatures who respond well to positive reinforcement and work hard as lab rats pushing the bar to get our pellets. Having my pellets taken away is a harsh blow.... @dag, before you bestow Sift of the Week Power Points, 'twould be best to check to see if they can actually be bestowed. To have one's gift be yanked back... oh, the pain, the pain!

I can see the logic, though. Too much power can accumulate in the hands of those who are on the site more than others. That can have a dampening effect on less involved Sifters, in a variety of ways.

Plus... revenue. You guys need to get paid for all your work.

I am already mourning my reduced wealth. Five power points. Ripped from my womb. Damn.

Still in mourning that the storms passed us over this year down in Texas! We need all the water we can get! We did have a disaster this last month and I shall remain in mourning for yet another!
http://videosift.com/video/Icon-Big-Tex-Fries-at-the-State-Fair

That's right, pardner!
*promote a month of mourning for the barrel-chested Texas mutant!!
REBUILD HIM!!!

*length=2:38

On the subject of rain, it's been months since we've had any here in the [normally] Pacific NorthWET ... so ... I am compelled to *promote this wonderfully mournful little ditty in the hope that we won't permanently become the EverBROWN State.


Boy do I miss this guy. I still have my autographed Jim Varney Fan photo [knowhatimean?]

>> ^PostalBlowfish:

im not sure where the punchline is.


When they find out they're pregnant.

>> ^bareboards2:

I'm guessing you are a man?
Because as a woman, I started howling in recognition of the lambasting of the whole Akin fiasco that was apparent as soon as the woman started speaking.
Of course, I am not the Arbitrator of All Femme Comedy. I'll be interested to see if other women sifters find this funny.

>> ^PostalBlowfish:
its a little heavy handed to be labeled a joke, and im not sure where the punchline is.



I don't think my penis had anything to do with how I didn't laugh. I got a decent chuckle out of the article I read yesterday that showed Akin dropping 11 points in the polls. I think the obviousness of the video and the saturation of the issue in the news works against it. Almost immediately, I thought "ok I get it" and I only gave it the next minute thinking there was going to be a joke.

Hopefully 3 months from now it will be a lot funnier.

>> ^Sagemind:

I'd call it funny. It's a Sarcastic face slap to Todd Akin's Rape Comments.
http://videosift.com/video/Todd-Akins-Rape-Comments-Represe
nt-Official-GOP-Platform
Get ready - there are a bunch of videos that are on their way dealing with this issue and Todd Akin is the punchline at the end of every joke.
>> ^PostalBlowfish:
its a little heavy handed to be labeled a joke, and im not sure where the punchline is.



I get that, I just didn't laugh. It was too obvious the whole way through. I guess it doesn't help that I don't find the situation funny. I'm too busy being worried about rich jerkovs buying elections for batshit loons like this.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'legitimate rape, birth control, mourning after' to 'legitimate rape, birth control, mourning after, Brian Keith Dalton' - edited by hpqp

I'd call it funny. It's a Sarcastic face slap to Todd Akin's Rape Comments.
http://videosift.com/video/Todd-Akins-Rape-Comments-Represent-Official-GOP-Platform

Get ready - there are a bunch of videos that are on their way dealing with this issue and Todd Akin is the punchline at the end of every joke.

>> ^PostalBlowfish:

its a little heavy handed to be labeled a joke, and im not sure where the punchline is.

I'm a man ... and I thought that was freaking hilarious! *dark to be sure, but most of the best humor is.
>> ^bareboards2:

I'm guessing you are a man?
Because as a woman, I started howling in recognition of the lambasting of the whole Akin fiasco that was apparent as soon as the woman started speaking.
Of course, I am not the Arbitrator of All Femme Comedy. I'll be interested to see if other women sifters find this funny.

>> ^PostalBlowfish:
its a little heavy handed to be labeled a joke, and im not sure where the punchline is.

I'm guessing you are a man?

Because as a woman, I started howling in recognition of the lambasting of the whole Akin fiasco that was apparent as soon as the woman started speaking.

Of course, I am not the Arbitrator of All Femme Comedy. I'll be interested to see if other women sifters find this funny.



>> ^PostalBlowfish:

its a little heavy handed to be labeled a joke, and im not sure where the punchline is.

Yossarian i couldn't agree more.

Very british ceremony, and probably very much FOR the british people. I don't doubt that many of the reasons i enjoyed it will not be relevant to others. To take the stadium from fields of green to industrial towers was great, especially showing all of the people who were there (willing or not) to help the transition - boats arriving from the west indies and such, the suffragettes. To see the growth of britain and eventually the forging of the rings. I think the ring forging was one of the coolest things i've seen.

It was different, and at times anti-political, anti british. Because being anti british is a british trait. Thank you boyle for showing what pride in our country looks like. The NHS and great ormond street, these are things to be proud of. Our humour, our invention, our quirkyness, our gifts to the arts. If only this would inspire more pride in our health sector. We used to lead the world with our NHS till the tories got their hands on it, maybe we can once again if we take PRIDE in its quality; show the world what a free health system can be. Come on, britain. Where's all the pride gone?

Even though i wasn't such a fan of the singing and dancing and texting, i understand why it was there (a tribute to what we've given the world in the technology and arts departments) and i think choosing Danny Boyle was a masterstroke. I haven't seen anything like it in my life before, and thank god it was finally something to come out of britain to be proud of. At least the british public knows how to represent britain on the world stage. If you want to know how great "great britain" really is, watch our HUMBLE ceremony.

We could lead the world again by showing them what humility, cooperation and pride can do; no more money in politics, no corrupt bankers. Civilised society and fair play were once our specialities.

Btw interrupting a tribute to one of the major bombings of the "anti terrism era" led by bush no less is if you ask me outright insulting to the memory of the dead. To cut to a worthless talking head like ryan seacrest as well? I'm sorry that britain couldn't hold people's attention for longer than 3 minutes whilst we mourn the loss of our loved ones. I hope the silence for the wars didn't bore anyone either. We all payed dearly to defend this island, this link to the theatre of war that eventually inspired the world to fight with us against wrongdoing and against the odds; the least we might expect from the rest of the world is their attention span for a bit.

It was deemed good enough that china commissioned a stage version to be shown in beijing. I bet seacrest won't be getting a call up. Anyone who didn't like it - switch over to Big Brother, Celebrity Love Island, X's Got Talent, Geordie/Jersey Shore or E! now. I'm sure you'll be mesmerised. You might even find ryan seacrest presenting one of them!!

The thing is, people DO feel comforted by people they THINK they know or Think they can relate to.
Seeing these bigger than life figures mourn, for some reason, helps them think, "OK, I can mourn too". Or when a big name personality gets mad about something, the average person says, "OK, it's good to know I'm not the only one and my anger has been justified".

Our brains think we actually know these people and we apply emotions to the personalities we think they have. Doing so also allows us to see them as friends and members of our "clan or family." I think it's natural to care or want a family member's opinion on things. It helps us cope.