Yo Canada, this is the first year after all this nasty global warming weather that I ever heard of the 'ground thunder' effect from the fast-freezing water splitting the ground Day After Tomorrow shit there!...Here's to life at or below the equator!

I'm not sure what that all meant, but I can sense that you are surprised/disappointed by my comment. Not to backtrack, because there is something that certainly struck me as odd and upsetting when I realized what the makeup artist had done here, but my comment was pithy to a fault; inappropriate was the wrong choice of words.

I have thought several times about it since I first made the point, and 'offputting' or 'disturbing' might have been better. I am not offended (specifically because I am white, so what the fuck do I have to be offended about) by the use of makeup in this case nor do I think that it violates some moral code (of which I am but a subjective arbiter). Rather, I think it was so poorly done as to draw attention and detract from the end product.

Blackface can be done right (a la Robert Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder) and it can be done wrong (e.g., every privileged white kid who dressed up as Trayvon Martin this Halloween). In this case, it was done wrong, if only subtly so.

He can play any scene, but just one character.... every damn movie. Unless he is trying to overcome a bad public image in which case we get a purposely against type character ala Tropic Thunder.

For some reason this live concert in TN is one of the fattest Priest shows-Love this cut man-Halford has written the best metal ballads.
-Incidentally, Glenn Tipton's b-day is the 25th, and former lead guitarist K.K. Downing's, the 27th-

Full moon is rising
The sky is black
I need your call I'm coming back
The road is straight cast
Wind's in my eyes
The engine roars between my thighs

From desert plains I bring you love
From desert plains I bring you love

Wild mountain thunder
Echoes my quest
My body aches but I'll not rest
Quartz light to guide me
Till sunrise leads
My passion screams, my heart it bleeds

From desert plains I bring you love
From desert plains I bring you love

Then in the distance
I see you stand
On the horizon you raise your hand
In burning rubber
I end my quest
You fall into my arms at last

From desert plains I bring you love

Your video, War Thunder trailer, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

This achievement has earned you your "Pop Star" Level 5 Badge!

There's more than a few roaming hobos who're roving homos yo, there's always been a low-flow of roving hoes' on them Pooches and Thunder Pumpkins...

Hooray for power!!

I LOVE thunderstorms!!!! Your description of that one is getting me all excited for one. How awesome to live so close to the water and get a view like that! I used to have a house with lakefrontage and seeing the lightning over the open water and hearing the booming thunder was quite a spectacular show...I sure miss it.

I didn't take part in that survey myself so I guess the % of women is slightly higher. I was a bit shocked though that there are so few women on this site. I have no idea what's scaring them off...other than the fact that there's such a strong male presence.

I just knew you would like that song!!! I don't think I've heard that Little Wing one before. And....speaking of songs. What a great assortment you've chosen for me today!! I'm having a busier than usual workday and it's nice to be able to have these songs playing in the background as I try to wrap my head around paper work. I've just started listening to them, so I will give you my opinion on these later on. I do have to say that the Baba O'Reily one I am VERY familiar with and it is another favorite!!

Honestly, That'd be a selling point for me. I live by an airport right now, and we get a few planes in daily (nothing major) but I LOVE them.

Every year we go down to Detroit for the Thunder over Michigan airshow and we stay in a hotel by the Detroit Airport, and one of my favourite things to do is sit by the pool and watch the planes go overhead.

I love how the room is pretty sound proof and you didn't hear the monstrous clap when the bow smacked into the second wave, just the thunderous explosion when the wave hits the windows.

That would drain too much energy.
He plucks the hairs one by one.
Thunder is the sound of the hairs popping out.

In other news: I bet you could make one heck of a rope with superbeard hair.

@eric3579, here is a transcript. So you can get the info without the annoying delivery:


And finally, New Rule: there are scandals, and then there are scandals. And perspective is important. Yes, to explain Benghazi, Susan Rice used talking points. But at least she didn't have to read them off her hand! [graphic of Palin looking into her palm]

Now this week, someone was taken off a cross-country flight in handcuffs for singing "I Will Always Love You" for three straight hours. And that's still fewer times has said "Benghazi". I've seen this woman [Megyn Kelly] say Benghazi on my TV so many times, I don't know if it's a problem with the set, or I'm in an Asian horror movie, and there's a monster named Benghazi.

Congressman and friend of Real Time Darrell Issa is the Chairman of the Oversight Committee, and as most Californians know, he made his fortune in car alarms. And now, ironically, has become a loud, repetitive, but ultimately pointless device that you wish to God someone would shut off so you could get some sleep. (audience applause)

But here's the difference between Darrell Issa and a car alarm. Sometimes when a car alarm goes off, there's an actual crime. I keep looking for the crime here, I feel like Reese Witherspoon arguing with the cop. Why are you arresting me? Susan Rice said "mob" instead of "al-Qaeda"? Obama said "act of terror" instead of "terrorist act"?

Republicans are constantly coming up with these never before stated secret rules, that they only tell you about once you've broken them.

"You don't make important speeches from a teleprompter!"

OK.

"No golfing until we have a budget!"

All right.

"Thou shalt not criticize the President when he's on foreign soil, unless he's a Democrat, of course, then it's OK."

Congressman Peter King thundered that the President was almost four minutes into his first Benghazi statement before he mentioned an act of terror! Ah yes, the four-minute rule. Fuck, how could I forget?!

'Scuse me, Nixon ran a burglary ring out of the Oval Office. Reagan traded arms with terrorists. Bush ginned up a war where thousands died by sending Colin Powell to lie to the UN with props, remember that? He turned an American hero into General Carrot Top! But I let it go. I said this is the business we've chosen.

But please, don't tell me that freedom died because Susan Rice broke the scared bond between citizens and talk shows. In a poll this week, 4 in 10 Republicans said Benghazi is the worst scandal in American history. Second worst? Kanye West snatching the mic from Taylor Swift.

If you think Benghazi is worse than slavery, the Trail of Tears, Japanese internment, Tuskegee, purposefully injecting Guatemalan mental patients with syphilis, lying about WMDs, and the fact that banks today are still foreclosing on mortgages they don't own, then your hard-on for Obama has lasted more than four hours, and you need to call a doctor. (wild audience cheering and applause)

And while the press has been occupied with scandal, the biggest scandal, and the most important story of the century so far, happened last week. Scientists reported that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has passed the long-feared milestone of 400 parts per million. And unless you're a chimney sweep, that's bad news. Because humans have never lived through it.

You think Susan Rice gave bogus talking points about Benghazi? What about the bullshit talking points the entire Republican Party has been spewing on climate change since the 90s? (audience applause)

I wanna see the e-mails to find out who came up with the talking points that global warming is just a theory, and that it needs more study, and climate change is a hoax. The Obama administration isn't dirty, the air is.

Welcome to thunder dome!

I certainly second your point about standard members being able to mark their own videos dead if they can't find a fix. I can't see any way to abuse that feature.

I'm not as sure about uber powerful members stealing your thunder... and we can't create second accounts - that would violate section 6 of the faq

Its a shame when you see a Probationary member with a three year anniversary badge on his profile. Here is a random example http://videosift.com/member/philippeoc
A solution to that specific problem could be to gift everyone ten points for each year they are here. The poor guy has been here for three years, submitting videos and not getting into trouble and yet he still has that damn red P. There are LOTS of members in that situation.
I wonder how many have given up even trying because its like purgatory you never escape from

It took me a long time to find the tiny FAQ link at the bottom of the page, which led me to this page http://videosift.com/starpower

The system is unbalanced. Members who have a the Related invocation (silver star and above? its not listed when this ability is granted) are able to very quickly accelerate the number of points they are getting.

Reaching a star is difficult, having uber powerful members stealing all the thunder makes it even harder.

I would ask one of you high level members to consider creating a second account and try to reach gold star. With your well honed internet kung fu it should be easy right?