Did anyone else see distortion on Maddow's face at the beginning of the video?

I blame the handling of Waco, and Ruby Ridge for the extent of Gun-show stupidity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
Was he a true sociopath? Through training and upbringing? Possible. Was he a fool? Most certainly. Absorbed in his own reality, his purposeful hermetical existence perpetuated his reality with supportive tribal influence of extreme surrealistic stupidity.

Excellent piece, I would up-vote a bunch of times, alas a promote will have to suffice.

Yep, there are eruptions every 3 or 4 years. It's parked on the mid-atlantic ridge AND a hot-spot so there's a lot going on in the subsurface. It's still neat though, especially when they have a live webcam on it

In reply to this comment by NordlichReiter:
Iceland is a volcanic island. This is normal, I thought.

Word, to bad their player is so ridged...

2 More:
Song title: Seduce Me Tonight (Flashdance OST) - My mom thought it was: "So Juicy Tonight"
Song Title: Elvira (Oak Ridge Boys) - My sister thought it was: "I'll Fire Up"

>> ^dag:
It's similar to the thing with song lyrics - it doesn't have to make a lot of sense for your brain to accept it. - For years, I thought the chorus to the B-52s song "Roam if you Want To" was "♪♪ Roll Misty Wattoo ♪♪"

>> ^ant:
Was the plane really aiming the fire? I didn't see it.


From what I understand their aim wasn´t to extinguish flames but they were drenching ridges near the fire to contain it and keep it from crossing over into the next valley.

Don't fool yourselves, people. Iguanas can give particularly vicious and gruesome bites. They have a serrated ridge bone in their mouths and hugely powerful jaws. Their saliva is also teeming with nasty microbes.

You're not gunna like it when it rips your skin off, and then the salmonella, necrotizing fasciitus, and other diseases crop up like some kind of nightmarish horror flick.

Just go grab that lizard off of what he is envisioning as his next meal, and your meaty flesh may become part of it.

I certainly hope they didn't eat that cake.

This clip is entirely contained in: http://politics.videosift.com/video/Tom-Ridge-and-Maddow-Debate-Decision-to-Invade-Iraq

>> ^xxovercastxx:
I always wondered why they made them like that in the first place.

According to Wikipedia, the large wheel served two purposes:
First, and most important, it allowed higher speeds with less pedaling. Later "safety bicycles", similar to what we know today, used chain drives with cogs of different sizes to achieve the result.
Second, the larger diameter afforded a smoother ridge over rough terrain like cobblestones, a problem later solved for smaller wheels with the advent of the pneumatic tire.

>> ^conan:
but how to stop without getting of?

I'm not an expert on the subject, but I think the design of the penny-farthing almost prevents you from stopping without getting off. If you don't slow down very gradually you're going to take a vicious header and the Gravity-Pavement Complex is going to do the "getting off" for you. Even if you did manage to stop without getting off, you'd have a devil of a time keeping yourself balanced.

I really enjoy the Black Cab Sessions.. very similar to La Blogotheque's style, and with the same great tastes in music. We should get more of 'em sifted.

If you enjoyed this go do a search for Fleet Foxes and show those vids some love!

For example: http://www.videosift.com/video/Fleet-Foxes-Sun-Giant-Blue-Ridge-Mountains :}

watching ur house burn live.. http://www.theweathermine.com/

though i think you can't glenrosa over the ridge and down into a valley

>> ^EndAll:
I've never had the pleasure of seeing them live, but I hear his voice is the exact same - if not better - live.

Absolutely 100% true.

I'm with 'drunk gwiz665' on this one: Fake!


But, seriously:


These close encounters can be explained by quick shifts in temperature, said Joe Desloges, a river specialist and geography professor at the University of Toronto.
Mr. Desloges explained that the frozen circles are actually ice pans, or surface slabs of ice that form in the center of a lake or creek, instead of along the water’s edge.
As water cools, it releases heat that turns into frazil ice – a collection of loose, needle shaped ice particles that can cluster together in an ice pan. If it accumulates enough frazil ice and the current is slow, over time, the pan can become a hanging dam – a dense, heavy piece of ice with high ridges and a low centre.
But he admits that the near-perfect circular shape of the Mississauga ice pan is very strange.
“Normally, you do not get edges of the ice pan so clean and even. It may occur when a pan forms quickly, then melts a bit before starting to refreeze,” he said. “There is the chance that these can form so perfectly, but not common at all.”

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/12/18/man-stumbles-on-round-spinning-creek-circle.aspx

When I was 7, I decided it was time to start listening to the radio, but wasn't sure where to begin. I saw a bus drive by with an ad for 94.7 KHJ country radio (a decade before new age even existed) and tuned in. I remember listening to Eddie Rabbit's 'I Love A Rainy Night', the Oak Ridge Boy's 'Elvira' and Dolly Parton's 9 to 5. It was fun stuff. A couple years later, Michael Jackson and MTV lured me away from country and into pop and R&B.

Check out this amazing comment I found on Reddit about this video

user GCRANSTON writes:
"See, this is why Fox News can't get a broadcast license in Canada.

I might also mention

1. War of 1812: Lit the White House on fire; American's commemorate this in their National Anthem

2. Vimy Ridge: First time Canadian Troops under Canadian command; advanced so fast troops were ordered to halt because supplies couldn't keep up. When asked how we took the untakeable position to quickly, Canadians respond with "No one told us it was impossible to do"

3. Passchedaele: Canadian troops inspire the original use of the term "Storm Troopers"

4. Dieppe: Canadian troops undertake practice invasion of the coast of France. Terrible loss of Canadian life. Lessons learned directly led to the successes at Normandy.

5. D-Day: Despite lessons learned from Dieppe, no beach head other than Juno - the Canadian Beach - was successful. American pilots actually bombed Canadian troops stating "no way are they that far inland; we're still stuck on the beaches!"

I'd go on but I'm just too furious with this lack of respect for my country. I will only say that Canada is in Afghanistan cleaning up America's mess, operating in the most dangerous part of the entire country. Maybe the reason Fox can't remember Canadians are in Afghanistan is that THEY WERE DOING SO BADLY THERE THEY HAD TO START ANOTHER WAR WITH IRAQ TO DRAW PEOPLE'S ATTENTION AWAY?!?

Fox News, I say to you with with deep sincerity: Go Fuck Yourself."

wow, couldn't've said it better

We have them in the Blue Ridge Mtns of Virginia. See them on a semi-regular basis. The daughter of a friend got bitten by one about three years ago and had to go through the whole rabies shot regimen. They're cute, but they can be dangerous.