I don't particularly like O'Reilly's conservatism and warmongering, but about this, Colbert is simply ignorant or worse. "OMG, mercenaries going rogue!" Because, y'know, the state's armies never go "rogue" or cause any "mayhem." Nope! Not in WW 1. Not in WW 2. Not in Korea. Not in Vietnam. Not in Latin America. Not in Iraq. Not in Afghanistan, or anywhere else!. Nope. Not ever.

The American forces never goes rogue and Bradley/Chelsea Manning is not being locked up for exposing the never-rogue nature of the American forces.

I don't think Colbert is an idiot. So I'm inclined to think that Hoppe may be correct and Colbert is just part of the "intelligensia," paid to promote stupidity among the masses. (OMG, I'm beginning to sound like "OMG Bernays!")

If anyone thinks they can't accomplish something, just smack em' upside the head and show them this. =)

@VoodooV

two dimensional thinking at its finest.

just because i point out that your commentary is tantamount to harassment does not automatically equal my condoning lantern or bobs oftentimes ridiculous commentary.

just because i am pointing out your hypocrisy does not mean i disagree with your actual comments.

if my fly was open or i had a huge booger hanging from my nose i hope you would pull me aside and point that out to me not stand from the bleachers,point and laugh.

your obsession with always being right has clouded your judgement in regards to what i am trying to point out to you.

is your ego so massive that the words of another should be so easily dismissed?each consecutive comment towards me is becoming more and more irrational and paranoid.

you mentioned calling me out on another thread.
yes you did.
which was a response to ME calling YOU out first.
and i smacked you down pretty handily.mainly due to the fact that you base your commentary towards me rife with presumption and conjecture.

which is exactly what you are doing here...again.

instead of hearing my words,you marginalize me in order to dismiss and ignore them.which is what all weak-minded people do in order to hold onto their own misconceptions.

bob does it.
lantern does it.
and so do you.

but never for a second deceive yourself into thinking i do not have the stones to say what needs to be said.your commentary reveals such an ignorance about who i am that i am literally laughing while i type this to you.

stop projecting voodoo.this persona you write about is not i,but rather you.

one last thing for your consideration (since we have totally hi-jacked this thread.sorry OP,please forgive).one of the main reasons i called you out was due to multiple private emails i received in regards to your current..and i quote one.."douchey attitude".

so the silence you hear is NOT due to agreement or consensus but rather many sifters fear confrontation.

i hold no such fear.

I don't think she stepped forward, she would have been leaning back a bit to keep balanced while holding the ball. As soon as she released the ball she had to stand upright to remain balanced. Hence when it came back it smacked her in the face. The prof should have thought of that. If he had held the ball instead it would have been better.

Also did you notice the smirk on his face when she got hit? He doesn't seem to care at all.

The prof was partially to blame here. After she lets go he's only looking at the audience. He should have been watching the person at risk of being smacked in the face, to make sure they didn't step forward. Worthwords is correct though - a wall behind the head would make a lot more sense, at least when science noobs are doing it.

I'd totally switch the ball (subtly via slight of hand) with a heavy padded ball, pull it away with a little force so it comes back and smacks me, then smash a few ketchup packets all over my face and roll around on the ground screaming.

Good thing I'm not a professor...

yeah I gotta go with "not cool" on this one.

almost looked like the video cut out right before mommy smacked her or something.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/Friday-Night-Smack-Ups-With-DOA5-Ultimate-on-XBL

"Friday Night Smack Ups" With DOA5 Ultimate on XBL has been added as a related post - related requested by chicchorea.

This is a great thing, and it will really help break down the barriers to women that exist in motorsport. It was a real shame that Deputy Team Principle Claire Williams tried her best to mess up the message on Sky TV in the build up to the weekend. The Sky team had got a goalie and a goal set up by the side of the track and were getting all the drivers to try to take penalties, some of them really good others couldn't kick a ball for toffee. Claire Williams gets interviewed, the only woman there and her reply when asked to take a penalty was 'I can't do that, I'm a girl...'

Of all the people to say that. A woman in a serious role in a top level F1 team which is trying to help promote women in motorsport. Some of the male drivers asked to take a shot made excuses but just had a go, but she wasn't even prepared to do that and the reason was that she's got a vagina.

I hope Susie Wolff gave her a right good smack when she saw it.

Note: See related vid http://videosift.com/video/Friday-Night-Smack-Ups-With-DOA5-Ultimate-on-XBL.

*relatedhttp://videosift.com/video/Friday-Night-Smack-Ups-With-DOA5-Ultimate-on-XBL

What about the chick at 3:00 who clearly requested the smacked ass? I think that I could somehow manage to overcome my reservations in that case...

...and while at it...

I challenge you to support your fallacious assertion "talking smack to people he despises by MAKING SHIT UP," AND for that matter produce any other user with whom I share even mild friction much less the enmity you dribblingly profess.

...BUT...YOU WILL NOT ADDRESS THIS ISSUE, even though it is of your raising, AS YOU NEVER DO...only more pitiable spewing. It cannot help it.

Your wild baseless caroms of vitriolic, profanity laden, diatribe are malodorous and tiresome. I do not despise anyone here and your assertion otherwise is as self servingly transparent as it is false. And you rise to naught but mild disgust. But, that is too much to put up with here.

Says the man whose active community involvement is wielding the flaccid ban-hammer and talking smack to people he despises by MAKING SHIT UP AND SPREADING HIS BRAND OF BILE (and continues to do so) IN ORDER TO STIR UP SHIT AND CAUSE HARM WITH A VIEW TO SELF-JUSTIFICATION OF CONTINUING THESE DYSFUNCTIONAL ACTIONS. PERIOD, SIR. Don't think for a second that it's not as transparent as Scotch, fucking tape. It's seems it's the only fun you have here as an internet bully, your only purpose for continuing your script seems your own self-satisfaction and twisted aggrandizement with similar ilk....

Notice always, the brown-nosing closing salutatory back-pats to anyone who inhabits his camp. Again mate, trans-fucking-parent.

The only bacteria here in human form resides and is fed by similar folks unwilling to see pulp-forests for sturdier trees.

Oh my god, the smacking of his lips is way over the top. I want to punch something now