Fun.

SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
So This Is Love

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
I Fucked Your Wife

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Calling from Hell

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Summer's Gone

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Everybody's Talkin'

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
The Shortest Straw

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Feel Good Hit of the Summer

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
No Love Lost

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Ice Queen

WHAT IS 2+2?
Away From The Numbers

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Burn

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Creature of the Wheel

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Unto Others

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Bombtrack

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Locked and Loaded

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Hate Kill Destroy

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
He Who Sought the Fire

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Reaping Stone

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Benighted

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Restless

WHATS THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Anything

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Day Tripper

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Darts

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Goodbye Blue Sky

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Abandoned, Pleased, Brainwashed, Exploited

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
Pushit

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
In Winter

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Call of the Zombie

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Allegro Assai

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Vengeance is Mine

Ah, merci again:) you're now officially the best caretaker of this post!
I should visit more often..

In reply to this comment by Zonbie:
*dead

>> ^rougy:
Donnie Darko really is one of those flicks that you either get or you don't.

How can anyone not "get it"? I mean, it's right there on the marquee when they walk (ride?) past the theater - "The Last Temptation of Christ". Can't get much more obvious than that.

^ It's not just the sex thing that makes us sad for people like this. It's that SO much of their life is controlled by ridiculous rules that are based on just... lies, just things that people made up that they think would help control people and make them better... She keeps saying that she made a deal with 'god'... even if there was some deity, these rules are NOT HIS/HERS, they aren't! They are things written by MEN with agendas.

So they follow all these rules and regulations and DON'T do things purely based on following things that even they know are nonsensical... and yet they continue to because to no would mean admitting that what they grew up believing to be true is... well... false. That's a hard thing to do, so instead you hang around with those of the same set of beliefs so it's easier to continue to believe because you're not being challenged, and you shelter yourself away from 'temptation'.

Upvote because she is a great storyteller, but it makes me sad to see someone who seems to be pretty together, just follow these words not because you've had a good THINK about what you believe might be the best way to live, but just because... that's what you've been told is the way.

Sad.

<sigh>

Guys, google "Geneva Convention Medical Transport" before you flame each other.

http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/COM/365-570043?OpenDocument
"The military authorities must take the greatest care to ensure that the red cross sign is removed as soon as a vehicle is no longer employed as medical transport, and strict orders to this effect must be given to all ranks. It is essential that the serious abuses which occurred during the Second World War should not be repeated. (2)
For although there were very good reasons for introducing the principle of a distinctive emblem which could be removed, the risk of abuse has certainly been increased as a result. After the wounded have been taken to the rear under the protection of the red cross sign, there [p.282] will be a great temptation to load the empty vehicles returning to the front with war material. If the emblem then remains on the loaded vehicles, there is a grave breach of the Convention, even if the sign has simply been left on through negligence or because there has been no time to remove it. Such cases have occurred. Constant vigilance is therefore essential."

Does "grave breach of the (Geneva) Convention" mean war crime? I'm not a human rights lawyer, but I suspect the answer is "hell yeah"...

"There is a temptation... to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith-promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.... In an effort to be objective, impartial, and scholarly, a writer or a teacher may unwittingly be giving equal time to the adversary... . In the Church we are not neutral. We are one-sided. There is a war going on, and we are engaged in it."

- Apostle Boyd Packer

Now I heard a cryin' man,
Is half a man with no sense of pride.
But if I have to cry to keep you,
I don't mind weepin', if it'll keep you by my side.

Ain't too proud to *beg, sweet darlin',

(The Temptations)

I spy Within Temptation and Björk in that video.

I would agree - except to say that it may not be economically viable for everyone to consistently spend an extra $8.50 on meat pizzas all the time, and in that case there would be an issue of access to healthier foods (as far as pizza is concerned, I suppose it's relative). I know people who say they would eat more organic foods if they were cheaper, which may or may not be bullshit, but we'll never really know.

It's easy enough and addicting enough to eat fats and carbs, and if people out there are willing to shell out their savings to eat that way, then there should be no need to subsidize those things. On the other hand, access to broccoli et. al. is a health issue, and something that more people should be able to consider without consulting their checkbooks.

In the end we can't force feed veggies to people, but at least we won't be forcing them to opt for the dollar menu because they are trying to make ends meet.


In reply to this comment by MINK:
Are you saying that if fat and carbs weren't subsidised, people would eat healthier?

Because somehow, i really really doubt that. I think people like eating shit. It's called temptation and gluttony, it's written about in many books thousands of years old.

I am vegetarian. If i go to a pizzeria, my friends happily spend 50% extra to get meat on their pizza. I am quite sure that if the meat pizzas were $10 and the vegetarian pizzas were $1.50 they would still buy the meat pizza.



In reply to this comment by blahpook:
>> ^MINK:
nah man, let's just ask the marketplace what it thinks and then do that.


The fact that an over-processed candy bar is cheaper compared to something relatively fresh from the ground - cauliflower for example - doesn't seem to make much sense when taking into consideration labor and processing and packaging, and Pollan's argument is that the best way to account for this difference is by looking at what the government subsidizes.

When the Farm Bill subsidizes resources mainly concerned in fat and carb production (corn, soy, wheat - and, indirectly, meat and milk), naturally, more farmers will move in that direction, flooding the market with more of these cheap goods, typically making them even more affordable. The end result is a fat America, sadly enough.

Affordability combined with the addictive qualities of a lot of these foods (sugars from corn, fats from soy) makes the market choice work in favor of the subsidies and the lobbyists who support them. Until that changes, there's always going to be more people at the Fatburger than the Farmer's Market.

Are you saying that if fat and carbs weren't subsidised, people would eat healthier?

Because somehow, i really really doubt that. I think people like eating shit. It's called temptation and gluttony, it's written about in many books thousands of years old.

I am vegetarian. If i go to a pizzeria, my friends happily spend 50% extra to get meat on their pizza. I am quite sure that if the meat pizzas were $10 and the vegetarian pizzas were $1.50 they would still buy the meat pizza.



In reply to this comment by blahpook:
>> ^MINK:
nah man, let's just ask the marketplace what it thinks and then do that.


The fact that an over-processed candy bar is cheaper compared to something relatively fresh from the ground - cauliflower for example - doesn't seem to make much sense when taking into consideration labor and processing and packaging, and Pollan's argument is that the best way to account for this difference is by looking at what the government subsidizes.

When the Farm Bill subsidizes resources mainly concerned in fat and carb production (corn, soy, wheat - and, indirectly, meat and milk), naturally, more farmers will move in that direction, flooding the market with more of these cheap goods, typically making them even more affordable. The end result is a fat America, sadly enough.

Affordability combined with the addictive qualities of a lot of these foods (sugars from corn, fats from soy) makes the market choice work in favor of the subsidies and the lobbyists who support them. Until that changes, there's always going to be more people at the Fatburger than the Farmer's Market.

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>> ^NetRunner:

I didn't realize they had a state-by-state prediction market.
If someone wanted to gamble on this election (and I'm getting sorely tempted to), I'd say buy stock in Virginia -- Obama is more likely to win that than Nevada, IMO.
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I'd say buy stock in Diebold or ES&S ftw!:

http://www.videosift.com/video/From-The-Programmers-Mouth-How-The-2000-Election-Was-Fixed

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-architect-of-the-Sarasota-FL-13-stolen-election

http://www.videosift.com/video/Hacking-Democracy

http://www.videosift.com/video/Dan-Rather-Reports-Trouble-with-Touchscreens

http://www.videosift.com/video/Sarasota-Elections-2006

http://www.videosift.com/video/Invisible-Ballots-A-Temptation-for-Electronic-Voting-Fraud

http://www.videosift.com/video/Broken-Government-Electronic-Voting-Machines

http://www.videosift.com/video/How-Fox-News-Killed-John-Kerry-in-2004

http://www.videosift.com/video/Uncounted-The-New-Math-of-American-Elections

http://www.videosift.com/video/PBS-NOW-Republicans-illegal-use-of-Voter-Caging-in-2004

http://www.videosift.com/video/Fox-News-Rigged-Focus-Groups

http://www.videosift.com/video/Hack-a-US-Election-in-3-E-Z-steps-with-your-friend-Diebold

http://www.videosift.com/video/New-Hampshire-Primary-Sham-Chain-of-Custody

http://www.videosift.com/video/Yet-another-documentary-showing-stolen-broken-elections

http://www.videosift.com/video/Votergate

http://www.videosift.com/video/E-Voting-Machine-Maker-Admits-Miscounts

http://www.videosift.com/video/Stealing-America-Vote-by-Vote

http://www.videosift.com/video/Voting-Machine-Being-Compromised-by-UCSBs-Security-Group

... there was also an amazing newscast report video that showed the new electronic voting machines in California were decertified by some officials. This video has been stripped off of youtube several months and I haven't been able to find it since.

I did find this interesting article about a voting fraud investigator that found out "too much"...
http://www.bradblog.com/Docs/ClintCurtis_RayLemme_Hust0906.pdf

Here's a very informative article on invasive ISP surveillance by Paul Ohm:

Nothing in society poses as grave a threat to privacy as the Internet Service Provider (ISP). ISPs carry their users' conversations, secrets, relationships, acts, and omissions. Until the very recent past, they had left most of these alone because they had lacked the tools to spy invasively, but with recent advances in eavesdropping technology, they can now spy on people in unprecedented ways. Meanwhile, advertisers and copyright owners have been tempting them to put their users' secrets up for sale, and judging from a recent flurry of reports, ISPs are giving in to the temptation and experimenting with new forms of spying. This is only the leading edge of a coming storm of unprecedented and invasive ISP surveillance.

It's almost an addiction for me. I promised maybe a few videos ago that I'd stop posting them. But Palin is going to produce SO much quality material until November that it's hard to resist the temptation.

From now until next week, I won't post political videos.