RAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

This is how I deal with my girlfriend sometimes. Never use words with girls, it's like struggling in quicksand.

Thanks for the explanation, Ghost. I'd not heard of this "dry quicksand" before. Sounds like a fun experiment.

>> ^Payback:
Over a million Iraqis killed by US soldiers? Wow, I have trouble believing that... that's close to how many civilian casualties were inflicted on the Germans in WW2 by everyone else. Not sure how to vote this one.


Watch it again....

Over 1 million killed DUE TO THE US OCCUPATION. He did not say directly at the hands of US forces.

What this means is. The US occupation threw the country into chaos, resulting in internal strife and sectarian violence. Most of those 1 million deaths are the direct result of US occupation, causing regional destabilization, AND introduction of active Al Qaeda operatives which DID NOT EXIST until said occupation occurred.

Yes, Saddam was a bastard and did deserve his fate. HOWEVER He did hold tight reign on the factions (namely religious in nature) keeping the country within strong secular bounds. Keeping religious fanatacism under check prevented sectarian violence. Of course, it did not hinder his ability to commit violence against anyone he so deemed to target.

Now we need to look again at why the US invaded. The WMD proclaimed to exist did not. The intelligence was cooked up and has been proven to be completely fabricated. The so called 'freedom' of the Iraqi people was not WHY the US invaded to begin with. The 'freedom' card was played AFTER the invasion by Bush and his gang when the WMD story fell apart at the seams and when the majority blinded by his so called 'morality' and 'faith' was shown to be a sham to garner votes. While Bush was crying 'freedom' for the Iraqi's Karl Rove and Dick Cheney continued to spew the WMD excuse until they were standing in quicksand. Soon thereafter, they shut their traps and also pushed the 'freedom' agenda.

We went to Iraq for oil. We went to Iraq because Saddam was trading oil in Euros instead of the US dollar. We went into Iraq because George Jr wanted revenge on the guy who attempted to assassinate George Sr. But mostly it was all about oil. Resource control. The side benefit is our ability to have an entire nation under military control through the guise of an appointed 'democratic' government. Meanwhile, the US pops up military structures, bases and a massive fortified compound (for command-control-intelligence) right in the heart of the middle east.

A little bit of thought, and you too will see the underlying intentions which the US had from Day #1. Put 1 and 1 together, and you realize that we killed people, tortured people, threw a nation into chaos, and spent trillions of US taxpayer dollars all for what?

Oil.

That is what happens when you elect 'oil men' into the US presidency.

Now, lets go elect McCain and all his ex-Enron, Bush, and Neocon advisers to the US Presidency. Lets see how much better things become.

No. Instead lets use our brains and keep our war/oil profiteering government and their cronies in line. I don't care what party. They are all guilty of this money game costing the lives of untold numbers of people around the world.

Wake up. The US is not a Democracy. It is a Plutocratic Kleptocracy.

Watch out. They are ALL (including Democrats) playing this same game with Iran. Listen, learn, and get your info from MANY sources. Most of what we get fed in the US is biased propoganda, and we are only told PART of the world story.

They want to hit Iran next.

Yes as Peroxide said this is not regular sand. It's an experiment demonstrating a possible mechanism for the behavior of dry quicksand, which I believe, has not been observed or recorded conclusively outside a laboratory setting. There are many stories of people and things dissapearing into dry quicksand but no one has been able to find a naturally occuring quicksand to reproduce these claims. This experiment lends credibility to these stories, suggesting fine wind blown sands, could potentially settle and accumulate to create a volume of sand with similar characteristics to those demonstrated in the experiment.

^ AKA please change the title to Dry Quicksand

I left you a nice comment (and of course a vote).

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I thought of you when I posted this. LOL! http://www.videosift.com/video/Marines-Get-Stuck-in-Quicksand

I thought of you when I posted this. LOL! http://www.videosift.com/video/Marines-Get-Stuck-in-Quicksand

"The bigger the waistband, the deeper the quicksand, or so I have read."

i've had this mixed up with another black and white alien movie. what's the one where people go up a hill and disappear down quicksand, and they're given a dotted mark on the back of their necks?

Tags changed from "robot chicken, adult swim" to "robot chicken, adult swim, quicksand" by gold star member James Roe.

Assuming that what she was clutching was a frog--the video's quality doesn't make it all that clear as to what she was clutching--, I have to ask, "What did the frog ever do to her to make her want to take it down with her? And how did that frog keep on croaking after it had become submerged beneath the quicksand?" Poor frog . . . and poor acting! And if it wasn't a frog she was latched on to, then have a good laugh on/at/with me!

hehehhe...."if you'll just give me a mulligan on the quicksand thing, no more pissing on the smaller creatures...heh!

Mythbuster fight!! I've never seen them go at each other...that was great.

And the quicksand was pretty cool, too.