thanks! i see your vote on Emo Harold was the deciding one, much obliged. Let me just take a look at that PQ...

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Congrats! I see gwiz already busted his nut, so I'll keep this short

It's weird how many white people will intellectualize this issue, and discuss it as an abstract.

It's just racism. That is all that it is.

It was very clearly racism when on Morning Joe, none of the panel could keep their eyes off of Harold Ford.

Rand Paul is a racist, and so is his father. So was William Buckley, the "Grandfather" of the conservative movement. It's not difficult to discover. Lew Rockwell has all the old Ron Paul papers. They're ugly. Most of them are also homophobic, as well as misogynistic. All are clearly classist.

They are all quite hypocritical as well.

For instance, while Rand Paul claims he's a libertarian (when it suits him), he also believes in the drug war and the death penalty. He thinks that abortion is not a states issue. He also believes in subsidizing the coal industry, and %50 of his patients are Medicare recipients and is against any cuts in Medicare funding. So, basically he's just a wingnut racist Republican liar.

His father, the "World's Most Famous Libertarian" lobbied for $96.1million in Federal earmarks last year. But he doesn't want to spend a dime on giving Rosa Parks a medal? Yeah, that's not racism at all, it's just coincidental.

Thirdered-

Tied at 11 Yea, 11 Nay
Naysayers=Fear Yea=No Fear


He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ~Harold Wilson

Dying to get in there, hear it's quite peaceful. Constant temp, conjugal visits....fresh flowers

The sift quotation system is completely fucked. I've had nonsense like this happen all too often, and for too long.

I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!

seriously though, somebody needs to fix this or revert to the older situation.

>> ^cybrbeast:

Apparently it gets worse:
<i>Sonoma County CA separates elderly gay couple and sells all of their worldly possessions
One evening, Harold fell down the front steps of their home and was taken to the hospital. Based on their medical directives alone, Clay should have been consulted in Harold's care from the first moment. Tragically, county and health care workers instead refused to allow Clay to see elderly_man.jpgHarold in the hospital. The county then ultimately went one step further by isolating the couple from each other, placing the men in separate nursing homes.
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bilerico.com/2010/04/sonoma_county_ca_separates_elderly_gay_couple_and.php">Full story..</a>.</i>
<em>>> <a rel="nofollow" href='http://videosift.com/video/Obama-Orders-Same-Sex-Couples-Hospital-Visitation-Rights#comment-978630'>^dannym3141</a>:<br />
I'm totally with you on this one. Same sex couples DIDN'T have the right to hospital visits? This is like a serious WTF moment for the rest of the civilised world, i think <br> <br> And i mean serious. It's like i just got told women didn't have the vote in america.<br><br><br><div><div style="margin: 10px; overflow: auto; width: 80%; float: left; position: relative;" class="convoPiece"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/video/Obama-Orders-Same-Sex-Couples-Hospital-Visitation-Rights#comment-978561" rel="nofollow"> cybrbeast said</a>:<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.videosift.com/member/cybrbeast"><img style="margin: 4px 10px 10px; float: left; width: 40px;" src="http://static1.videosift.com/avatars/c/cybrbeast-s.jpg" onerror="ph(this)"></a><div style="position: absolute; margin-left: 52px; padding-top: 1px; font-size: 10px;" class="commentarrow">◄</div><div style="padding: 8px; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 2px; min-height: 30px;" class="nestedComment box">I never knew this was even the case. As an outsider the US never ceases to amaze me with its stupidities. Sometimes I doubt if it even is a civilized country.<br></div></div></div></em>

Apparently it gets worse:

Sonoma County CA separates elderly gay couple and sells all of their worldly possessions

One evening, Harold fell down the front steps of their home and was taken to the hospital. Based on their medical directives alone, Clay should have been consulted in Harold's care from the first moment. Tragically, county and health care workers instead refused to allow Clay to see elderly_man.jpgHarold in the hospital. The county then ultimately went one step further by isolating the couple from each other, placing the men in separate nursing homes.

story continues @ www.bilerico.com/2010/04/sonoma_county_ca_separates_elderly_gay_couple_and.php

>> ^dannym3141:

I'm totally with you on this one. Same sex couples DIDN'T have the right to hospital visits? This is like a serious WTF moment for the rest of the civilised world, i think
And i mean serious. It's like i just got told women didn't have the vote in america.
<div><div style="margin: 10px; overflow: auto; width: 80%; float: left; position: relative;" class="convoPiece"> cybrbeast said:<img style="margin: 4px 10px 10px; float: left; width: 40px;" src="http://static1.videosift.com/avatars/c/cybrbeast-s.jpg" onerror="ph(this)"><div style="position: absolute; margin-left: 52px; padding-top: 1px; font-size: 10px;" class="commentarrow">◄</div><div style="padding: 8px; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 2px; min-height: 30px;" class="nestedComment box">I never knew this was even the case. As an outsider the US never ceases to amaze me with its stupidities. Sometimes I doubt if it even is a civilized country.
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from the cbs website

by KarmasHelper March 11, 2010 10:02 PM EST
Please contact the school and school board to voice your concerns:

Itawamba Agricultural High School
11900 Old Highway 25
Fulton, MS 38843-8447
(662) 862-3104

Principal Trae Wiygul
twiygul@itawamba.k12.ms.us

Asst. Principal Rick Mitchell
rmitchell@itawamba.k12.ms.us


Itawamba County School District
605 South Cummings Street
Fulton, MS 38843

Superintendant Teresa McNeece
tmcneece@itawamba.k12.ms.us
(662)862-2159 Ext. 14

School Board Members

Eddie Hood
a082315@allstate.com

Jackie Nichols
jnichols@itawamba.k12.ms.us

Harold Martin
hmartin@itawamba.k12.ms.us

Clara Brown
cbrown@network-one.com

>> ^MaxWilder:
Was anyone else struck by how much he looks like Egon (Harold Ramis)?


haha, yes; was going to mention it.

LOL I was going to write that same thing.
>> ^MaxWilder:

Was anyone else struck by how much he looks like Egon (Harold Ramis)?

Styrofoam is an insulator. You can freeze the inside of the container and the outside will remain close to room temperature. However, if you put little chunks or thin sheets of it in the liquid nitrogen, it would probably still freeze and become brittle, like the plastic shell of the laptop. But when the liquid nitrogen is gone, the Styrofoam container will warm back up to room temperature unharmed.

Was anyone else struck by how much he looks like Egon (Harold Ramis)?

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From Heinlein's 'Stranger in a Strange Land':

On the planet Terra the flapper system developed slowly. Time was when any Terran sovereign held public court so that the lowliest might come before him without intermediary. Traces of this persisted long after kings became scarce - an Englishman could "Cry Harold!" (although none did) and the smarter city bosses still left their doors open to any gandy dancer of bindlestiff far into the twentieth century. A remnant of the principle was embalmed in Amendments I and IX of the United States Constitution, although superseded by the Articles of World Federation.

By the time the Champion returned from Mars the principle of access to the sovereign was dead in fact, regardless of the nominal form of government, and the importance of a personage could be told by the layers of flappers cutting him off from the mob. They were known as executive assistants, private secretaries, secretaries to private secretaries, press secretaries, receptionists, appointment clerks, et cetera - but all were "flappers" as each held arbitrary veto over communication from the outside.

These webs of officials resulted in unofficials who flapped the Great Man without permission from official flappers, using social occasions, or back-door access, or unlisted telephone numbers. These unofficials were called: "golfing companion," "kitchen cabinet," "lobbyist," "elder statesman," "fiver-percenter," and so forth. The unofficials grew webs, too, until they were almost as hard to reach as the Great Man, and secondary unofficials sprang up to circumvent the flappers of primary unofficials. With a personage of foremost importance the maze of unofficials was as complex as the official phalanxes surrounding a person merely very important.

I don't care if they give him the Nobel award. It's just an award. It doesn't mean anything.

But for Scarborough to say that it was given to Jimmy Carter and Al Gore because they hated George Bush, and to Harold Pinter because he hated America? That's just ridiculous.

Oh, and the bit about Reagan was HILARIOUS.

Bud Cort (Harold from "Harold and Maude") interviewed about the cult movie phenomenon

http://www.videosift.com/video/Bud-Cort-on-Harold-and-Maude

I followed these links and determined that what you think is trolling is not trolling at all, at least not in QM's case. Disagreeing with popular opinion is not trolling. I promise. You may think he's wrong, but he seems to be honestly stating his opinion, and not just to be inflammatory. You're committing the affective fallacy. When something angers you, it doesn't mean that the purpose of the comment was to anger you.

The banana comment was pretty inappropriate, I'll give you that. But I think that he was attempting to make an actual point.

>> ^vairetube:
Well, Choggie is gone. BillO is gone.
QM is still here, making formulaic trolling statements and downvoting things for no real reason other than dislike of the poster. Even I don't do that to "him", at least as far as sifted videos are concerned.
Other people who are clear in their bigoted opinions are around.
None of them have ever made me laugh. Westy has. Gwiz did too. Because they are just kidding, and will take their medicine and accept the consequences when they cross the community line.
It's pretty fair I suppose... but ban westy and you have to ban QM for the constant trolling and lack of constructive contribution to anything whatsoever.
Actually , I propose a sacrifice: IP Ban me on the stipulation that QM gets an ip ban. I will be alright. I assume it would end a big part of their life, though. If we're going to rid the sift of trash, let's do it right. I just like watching videos and reading comments anyway.