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^No, I'm not kidding. I've experienced an atmosphere of intimidation in a standard hospital birthing ward. I've also experienced a home birth. It's night and day.

In the hospital, women are strapped up to incredibly uncomfortable fetal monitors and made to lie in a certain position so the computers back in the nursing station can get an accurate reading- there are women screaming, alarms going off and an atmosphere of medical emergency. It's no wonder that labor often stops - when women feel they are not in a safe place - and a Caesarean becomes necessary.

The birth of our second child was in an environment much like the one in the video - except no pool. We had a qualified midwife there to help us- with all of the gear, and a backup hospital on standby. We also had my partner's trusted friends - a group of strong women to be supportive through the whole process. Back rubs, soothing music and lots of support made for a fantastic birthing experience that I would recommend to anyone. Our baby was breach, and over 12 pounds.

My partner was also a member of a 100 strong homebirth support group, and we did six months of Bradley classes - so no, I don't think I'm speaking from a position of ignorance- but I'd love to hear your story, and why you think I am.

The movie ran through me
The glamour subdued me
The tabloid untied me
I'm empty please fill me
Mister anchor assure me
That Baghdad is burning
Your voice it is so soothing
That cunning mantra of killing
I need you my witness
To dress this up so bloodless
To numb me and purge me now
Of thoughts of blaming you
Yes the car is our wheelchair
My witness your coughing
Oily silence mocks the legless boys
Who travel now in coffins
On the corner
The jury's sleepless
We found your weakness
And it's right outside your door

Now testify
Now testify
It's right outside your door
Now testify
Yes testify
Its right outside your door

With precision you feed me
My witness I'm hungry
Your temple it calms me
So I can carry on
My slaving sweating the skin right off my bones
On a bed of fire I'm choking on the smoke that fills my home
The wrecking ball is rushing
Witness your blushing
The pipeline is gushing
While here we lie in tombs
While on the corner
The jury's sleepless
We found your weakness
And it's right outside your door

Now testify
Yeah testify
It's right outside your door
Now testify
Now testify
It's right outside your door

Mass graves for the pump and the price is set
And the price is set
Mass graves for the pump and the price is set
And the price is set
Mass graves for the pump and the price is set
And the price is set
Mass graves for the pump and the price is set
And the price is set

Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now controls the past
Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now?

Now testify
Testify
It's right outside your door
Now testify
Testify
It's right outside your door

Those shows are so popular because they provide rationalizations for the pervasive cognative dissonance that is necessary to support many conservative positions (not all of them, some are quite justified). Ideas like pro-life and death penalty, religious charity obligations and anti-welfare or health care reform, or religion and gun advocacy, are all contradictory stances which need regular reinforcing rationalizations in order to sooth the anxiety that is produced by ignoring or denying their own logical fallacies.

My theory is that the popularity of these shows is directly proportional to the unsustainable nature of their positions.

Actually, Michelle, people go where they think they're going to be jerked off. The truth is often challenging. A nice handjob can be quite soothing.

*Soothing Female Voice*

The SEARS Turbo-Eclipse 9000 Powered Saw.
-It will carve through your universe-



*see your local sears for a demonstration
**not actuall size
***alka seltzer not included

I never heard the Alex North's score.

Vangelis is very soothing. I actually found a internet radio station called Bluemars that plays alot of really nice spacey chill music.

Anyway here is the embed, just change the embed src with this i highlighted the change in bold, and it will start from the song.

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In reply to this comment by UsesProzac:
I don't know how to do that fancy embed stuff. Maybe you could help me? If I spoke Japanese, that intro would be more entertaining..

I love Vangelis' soundtrack for Blade Runner. It's amazing.

Alex North's original soundtrack for 2001--which didn't get used, ultimately--is pretty great, as well.

In reply to this comment by Farhad2000:
I love having this movie play in the background just for the atmospheric music and dialog. Same thing I do with 2001 and Blade Runner.

Might wanna add a $start=160 or so to kick it off from the music. The introduction is pretty lengthy.

despite my feelings about alex jones' wingnut positions on the trilateral commission, bilderberg, and the cfr...

i'm upvoting because the essential message the vid infers is, as 'the who' so succinctly put it, 'meet the new boss, same as the old boss'

here are some legitimate gripes i have with obama and habeus corpus:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Guantanamo-Bagram-Is-there-much-difference
http://www.videosift.com/video/BBC-Investigation-of-Abuse-At-Bagram-Air-Base
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/11/bagram/

imho, the difference between bush and obama is black and white, literally... although obama can pronounce 'nuclear' ... i believe that his message of change wasn't much more than to convince the american people and the world that he was some sort of harry potter, who could fix all that was wrong simply with a wave of his big black wand

in reality, and from primarily an international perspective, he's the usa's global apology card, primarily to a western europe both worried and not-a-little-angry with america because 1. it gave them 8 years of gw bush, 2. was the sole remaining superpower in the vacuum left by the ussr's collapse, and was now viewed not as the cold war's 'great balancer' but as a post-cold war threat to both global security and international parity, and 3. through the burgeoning of instant mass communication afforded by the internet, the uneducated and largely impolite rabble of europe and the us were better able to ruffle each other's feathers, both innocently and maliciously

this two-way estrangement between the decades-long, erstwhile allies needed and continues to need to be smoothed over, and what better way than to present the world--at least on the surface--a polar opposite to bush and his ilk... a well-spoken, apparently sincere man of intelligence whose humble platitudes and defacto apologies at least try to serve as a soothing balm to the inflamed passions, old rivalries, petty grievances, and genuine concerns that had long lain dormant during the cold war, but were coaxed back to their previous vigor with the ill breath of the three enumerated items in the previous paragraph, which reput would be: 1. american arrogance, 2. a nascent eu's competitiveness and envy, and 3. the ignorance and polemics of the internet's unwashed masses

so... who 'won't get fooled again?'

I love the soothing "flick" some of them do... the fact that more than one of them do it really amuses me...

What the fuck? I come back from a week on vacation and find the roast already over? But then again, who would bother to take time away from their vacation to spend on blankfist. I know he will read this anyway, because he craves the attention, no matter how deprecated. You can't really blame him though, when the only human contact he's experienced are his mother and disabled hookers. He did try to spike up his social life with World of Warcraft at one point, but it didn't work out so well.

The forces that be obviously don't want me to grant blankfist the attention that he most definitely doesn't deserve, as my computer crashed trying to upvote comments in this thread. I had to take a pause from reading the comments and play some Bach on the piano to soothe my nerves, which were frayed from a mixture of pity and disgust. I will go through with it though, since the image of blankfist whimpering, yet unable to turn away from his computer is worth some frustration.

He likes to chastise others for their sense of humor, which is a little tragical given that his own perceived height of comedy is copying and pasting the word 'a$$gr@vy' into his comments.

If you could choose your own way of death, what would it be?
Death by holding my pee.

I didn't really find it creepy at all, all those pretty faces amidst that soothing guitar strum. *sigh* I wish I was a Scientologist.

Very soothing and easy to listen to, yes This is my favourite, just fyi...

http://www.videosift.com/video/Kings-of-Convenience-I-Don-t-Know-What-I-Can-Save-You-From

In reply to this comment by jacobrecker:
I had never heard of Kings of Convenience before but that song was really nice (as are the rest of theirs I'm sure)

In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
Oh fuck and another one! I love you dude

In reply to this comment by jacobrecker:
*promotey

This guy I subscribed to on YouTube just keeps posting awesome time lapses, but doesn't post the artist of the music.
Can you help again?
http://www.videosift.com/video/Beautiful-Hippeastrum-Flower-Time-Lapse

In reply to this comment by Ornthoron:
It is not Air on a G string either; that one is an adaption for solo violin and piano. The music in the video is the real thing, by Bach himself.

Edit: Although it should be mentioned that the title "Air on a G string" is often misattributed to any version of this tune.

In reply to this comment by cybrbeast:
I think it might be Bach after all.

Bach - Air on a G String
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MYzkBiJn5Y

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_on_the_G_String

*edited again

Hope it's correct now. Thanks for helping to clear that up.

In reply to this comment by Ornthoron:
It is not Air on a G string either; that one is an adaption for solo violin and piano. The music in the video is the real thing, by Bach himself.

Edit: Although it should be mentioned that the title "Air on a G string" is often misattributed to any version of this tune.

In reply to this comment by cybrbeast:
I think it might be Bach after all.

Bach - Air on a G String
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MYzkBiJn5Y

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_on_the_G_String

*edited again

It is not Air on a G string either; that one is an adaption for solo violin and piano. The music in the video is the real thing, by Bach himself.

Edit: Although it should be mentioned that the title "Air on a G string" is often misattributed to any version of this tune.

In reply to this comment by cybrbeast:
I think it might be Bach after all.

Bach - Air on a G String
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MYzkBiJn5Y

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_on_the_G_String

*edited again

>> ^marinara:
uh was nothing never mind

You dirty post editor. Now I don't know anymore.. help?