Sadly, the goofy and fun news clips that close each local news casts may be an endangered species. Or at least, they can no longer be taken at face value. First, take a look at how this was reported:


“Liquid Mountaineering” is a new term created by some European pranksters to describe a new technique they’ve pioneered for walking on water. Actually, they appear to be running on water, and they have the viral video to prove it. The well produced and vaguely believable YouTube clip that has since been revealed to be a “viral ad” for Hi-Tec, but that didn’t stop the news team at WUSA More..in Washington D.C., from reporting it to be true.

>> ^vaporlock:

Not like the pirates of old. No sandals and orange swim trunks on Blackbeard's crew.


Yeah they are mainly poor fishers who lost their job because of overfishing by western corporations.
Funnily, that overfishing is also the main cause of poaching of endangered species on the main land of africa.
To put it simple: Those guys simply get taken away their main food source (yes, thats fishing) and then people wonder why they try the criminal way.
This world is fucking nuts...

>> ^xxovercastxx:
2009? That part right there is the epitome of politics in any time or place. It's why nobody in their right mind believes that politicians can make the world a better place. These are people who've dedicated their lives to playing these games in order to see how long they can be the center of attention.



I disagree. I think that the following all made the world a better place:

• Child labor laws
  
• Minimum wage laws
  
• Worker safety laws
  
• Car safety laws
  
• Environmental protections (ranging from national wildlife preserves, to endangered species protection to various Clean Air & Water bills)
  
• SNAP (aka Food Stamps)
  
• Unemployment benefits
  
• Civil Rights legislation
  
• Social Security
  
• Medicare, Medicaid, S-CHIP
  
• FDA, FAA, FCC, FEC, FDIC, FTC, NLRB, NOAA, NASA, ARPA
  
• National Guard, Coast Guard, Peace Corps, Americorps
  

And that doesn't even cover the most basic legislation laid down by "politicians" in the Constitution, establishing things like free speech, protection against illegal search and seizure, the right to a trial by peers, the right to habeas corpus, protection against cruel and unusual punishment, and the guarantee of equal protection of laws.

If our elected representatives don't live up to the standards of the above, it's our fault for having sent them there, and we need to do better.

Acting as though it's impossible to improve the situation is exactly the kind of thinking that got them elected in the first place. In fact, there's a whole party dedicated to intentionally fucking up government, then saying to the electorate "vote for me if you think the government sucks!"

I'm still trying to figure out exactly what the other party is dedicated to. Seems to me they're dedicated to promising good things, then making excuses about how the other party stopped them from getting them done. I'm hoping eventually they wake up and start fighting for what they supposedly believe in.

Totally with Gwiz and TheFreak on this one. While Japanese whaling may seem brutal and grotesque, it's not really any different than slaughterhouses. If they're not killing an endangered species, let them be. And that pussy little boat could have turned out of the path of collision at any fucking time, those sirens were probably to warn them to get the fuck out of the way of a bigger, harder-to-turn boat, because they're not going to let your bullshit interrupt their fucking livelihood. Those assholes on their little boat think they're being heroes, but they're really just taking the bread from the mouths of children with their terrorist antics.

You need to shave your butthole.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
I don't shave my pussy.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Very good, as usual.

Observation: Are women without shaved pussies becoming an endangered species? The last three women I dated were all bare down there. Nothing wrong with it, mind you, but I still prefer a little bit of fur on the beaver.

I don't shave my pussy.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Very good, as usual.

Observation: Are women without shaved pussies becoming an endangered species? The last three women I dated were all bare down there. Nothing wrong with it, mind you, but I still prefer a little bit of fur on the beaver.

>> ^dag:
>> ^kronosposeidon:
Very good, as usual.
Observation: Are women without shaved pussies becoming an endangered species? The last three women I dated were all bare down there. Nothing wrong with it, mind you, but I still prefer a little bit of fur on the beaver.

I'm with you KP- no shaving at all please. Amazed as usual that this is all from a DSLR.


FYI, this video was shot with my new DSLR, the Canon T1i. The old Nikon D90 had too many caveats for shooting video. I too shall go on record; while grooming is preferred, shaved is not a pref for me.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

>> ^kronosposeidon:
Very good, as usual.
Observation: Are women without shaved pussies becoming an endangered species? The last three women I dated were all bare down there. Nothing wrong with it, mind you, but I still prefer a little bit of fur on the beaver.


I'm with you KP- no shaving at all please. Amazed as usual that this is all from a DSLR.

>> ^kronosposeidon:
Very good, as usual.
Observation: Are women without shaved pussies becoming an endangered species? The last three women I dated were all bare down there. Nothing wrong with it, mind you, but I still prefer a little bit of fur on the beaver.


It's harder and harder to find ladies in L.A. who don't shave, that is for sure, but I have stumbled across a few

Very good, as usual.

Observation: Are women without shaved pussies becoming an endangered species? The last three women I dated were all bare down there. Nothing wrong with it, mind you, but I still prefer a little bit of fur on the beaver.

I see Tucker is wearing a tie. Must be he got laid finally.

Course it's a pink tie.. that guy has some issues.




And it that one dude, Zurawik or what ever, is wrong. It is not the purvey of journalism to help citizens make smart choices, thats the purvey of consumer reports.

Journalism is there to be critical on all things and especially to ask the real questions in situations like the one we are in today. We have Freedom of the Press not so they can inform the consumer of what their corporate office wants them to hear, but to critically think and report on our world. Not to tow the political line, but to challenge political lines.

When these journalists and pundits clearly don't even know the purpose of the Press (such as the one guy I'm talking about,) then you know that real journalism is an endangered species, with people like John Stewart one of the few real 'journalists' left.

And Carlson is a retard. Stewart is clearly a democrat but to call him a 'partisan hack' is beyond ludicrous. Does he not remember John Stewart busting Bill Clinton during his administration? You could probably pull up dozens of clips of him hammering that administration over the years.

Last (edit) Stewart wasn't busting CNBC and Cramer, though they were clearly the immediate focus. He was busting on ALL of today's corporate media, particularly any of the 24 hour networks that propose to 'report' on ecconomics.. which AFAIK is.. all of them.

I personally can only hope that this isn't over. I'd be beyond happy to see this situation continue and for Stewart to just keep up his fantastic work.

Two problems with that morality:

1. Ritual is relevant.

If you kill only one animal, why does it matter if the lethal wound is from an arrow or a bullet? Does your argument stand if the weapons are a 17th century musket versus a compound bow? How about a knife coated with fast-acting neurotoxin? Blow darts? Hand to hand, but you are wearing a high-tech exoskeleton?

2. Omniscient is required.

Imagine it is instead a hermit who purchases guns and poaches the lion, one who has never seen the "endangered species" list. How are they to know the population of lions, or the population of lions worldwide, unless they have omniscience?

Or, if you leave on Friday for a week-long deer hunting trip, and after you leave every deer worldwide falls ill from a worldwide-virus except the ones in your geographical location. That species is now endangered yet you would have to be omniscient to realize what you were doing was now morally wrong.

Yes, killing lions may be, or should be, socially wrong; but you aren't talking about socially wrong you are talking about morally wrong because you said "they deserve to die" not "they deserve to be socially ostracized."

>> ^Farhad2000:
Look if you go hunting a over populated species with a bow knife and a bow and arrow I get it. I might not agree with it but I get it.
But when you are 'hunting' with a rifle, a species that is protected, for some kind of stupid kick then you totally deserve to be mauled by the animal.

Arent lions on the international endangered species list ?
What the fuck ?

>> ^quantumushroom:
6) All polar bear pods are stable or growing (NOAA/PBS)


"Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne today announced that he is accepting the recommendation of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dale Hall to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)."

You are a despicable human being, QM.

You lie on a routine basis.

You represent all that is filthy, lazy, and ugly in mankind.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'bengal tiger, white, San Francisco, dive, swim' to 'bengal tiger, white, endangered species, San Francisco, dive, swim' - edited by calvados