He he, well said @heathen! This stuff makes me glad I married a girl with green eyes

I'm sure the Jones Family farm is fortified to the nines with all manner of single shot, semi and fully automatic weapons.

I'm also quite sure a drone attack, an APC with half a dozen soldiers or a tank would make short work of his fairy-tale brand of home security if the US government really turned on its own people.

Really Alex Jones? What an exhausting waste of resources. He's clearly an impassioned activist. He could lobby for conservative values like fiscal responsibility and governmental accountability but he's really just telling the world how angry and violent many gun-toting Americans are.

Why is this so funny? I thought it would lose its effect after a few scenes, but this is gold baby! GOLD!

Awesome! Now all we need are the vocals played by Siri!

I can barely remember if I had some of those games for my Atari 2600, later on my Apple II, or if I was just at my friend's house playing his ColecoVision so much that I felt like I owned those games. Damn, that was a long time ago!

So THAT'S what happened to Strelok!

What makes no sense? The point here is that Mitch McConnell attempted to pass a bullshit, sarcastic bill as an insult to Democrats. By itself, this is a foolish, immature waste of time. But when called to task, he sheepishly backtracked. I was hoping since there is no danger of Obama being re-elected in 2016, then these filibuster games would end and your representatives could go back to work on real bills for the next 4 years. Sadly, the games go on. Hey look, I agree! It makes no sense.

I think it's a golden eagle (as opposed to a bald eagle.) And what a horrible death!

Golden Eagle - Wiki

>> ^MonkeySpank:

Am I the only one who thinks this is a Condor, not an Eagle?

Loved him in Dreamcatcher! His British accent freaked me out in that show.

This is a great find! I like Green's approach.

Mickeleh states he has no illusion that Obama will have an easier term this time around, but I am hopeful that it will. At least now the Rep's don't have to waste time and energy preventing another term for Obama. I just hope the Conservative scorched-earth tactics of filibustering and blocking all progress while attempting to attribute the blame to "the worst president in history" will finally cease.

Holy crap, NC. I hope you're right about this!

US foreign policy in the middle east is not making it popular, particularly in the form of sanctions and "(de)stabilization." The consequence of being wrong could be WW3. It's unfortunate that it's all complicated by the all-too-common anti-Semitism in the region (just to add a touch of Arab Tea Party crazy to the mix.)

Chomsky is a brilliant scholar. We should all read more about modern middle eastern history.

If Reps have a better sense of "how the world works," then why didn't they anticipate the mortgage-backed security crisis? Regulation is necessary, taxation is necessary and the freedom to marry who you want to marry is necessary to build a balanced and prosperous society. The Rep contradictions of "less gov = more freedom EXCEPT for marriage rights, women's bodies and more military spending" have been exposed to the majority as the fraud that they are. Obama endured relentless personal attacks, pointless filibustering and not a small amount of outright racism, lies and disrespect in a futile attempt to make him out to be the "worst president in history."

The people have spoken. Obama still came out on top, consistent to his values and gracious as he congratulated Romney on a hard-fought campaign. Taxing the top earners in the country a little more and cutting spending would be an effective way if paying down the deficit. How is this an illusion?

The Republican party needs to regroup. Their tactic of leaning further and further to the right (except in the last weeks) has soured too many right-of-center voters. If they argue now that they would have won "if only they had someone MORE conservative running," then they will surely lose again and again.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^Drachen_Jager:
Actually, far from stupid I found him really on the point here.
Candidate A will "Give them things" ie. make their lives better.
Candidate B says, "Screw you, my rich friends need MORE!" ie. make their lives worse.
Why did anyone vote for Romney again? It's been shown time and again, Democratic Presidents have a better record on the economy, AND debt levels than Republicans. Yet this illusion remains that somehow by focusing 90% of their energy on helping 5% of the population the Republican will magically shrink the debt and make everything work, in spite of the fact that it's been tried numerous times, and it's failed every single time.

If you hear people talk about Obama and his policies they are simply uninformed about them. They're uninformed about everything whether it's what the deficit means to history to how the world even works. The PR industry works hard on producing massive amounts of propaganda and it does work. This is how you do things when you do not have the big stick like in a Totalitarian society, you have to manufacture everyone's consent.

Excellent point. Drone use, according to the video, began in 2004. It doesn't matter who's in power, drones are here to stay until reporting of civilian casualties breaks into mainstream media.

>> ^Hive13:

Honestly, saying they are living under "Obama's" drones is a bit trite don't you think?

This is an excellent analysis of the sham that the capitalist market economy really is. It does indeed get the west the cheapest products and services. But the purse strings are being pulled by the banks, to whom we are all indebted in one way or another (through a mortgage, second mortgage, car financing, credit card(s), student loans.)

I feel like the system is crumbling, we're all going the way of Greece. Does anyone think the USA can pay its debt any better than the struggling Euro zone countries? If it does happen, who stands to lose out the most? The middle class, of course. The Romney's and Koch's of the world will come out of the collapse more powerful than ever.