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How Various Presidents Treat(ed) Secret Service Agents

blackoreb says...

The gentleman in the video appears to be parroting a debunked chain email. By "parroting", I mean the dude is repeating an anonymous email and pretending he heard the information first hand. And by "debunked", I mean the email claims to list highlights from a real book ("In The President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect" by Ronald Kessler), but the contents of the book do not match the contents of the email.

More Info:
http://www.factcheck.org/2011/06/secret-service-tattletales/

It Doesn't Get Better (Christian Anti-Gay Counter-ad)

blackoreb says...

According the study cited in the video, the incidence of cancer is significantly different for gay men versus straight men. It seems to me that this means either: a) gay men are physiologically different from straight men (and are not gay by choice); or b) God gives people cancer to punish them?

All you straight people with cancer should call the heavenly support desk ASAP, 'cause God thinks you are gay.

Armed Raid on Raw Foods Co-Op in CA Leads to Owners' Arrest

blackoreb says...

Just to add a few points to the discussion.
1. The "guns-drawn" video was from the first raid - the one that didn't result in any arrests.
2. This group could have obtained licenses/permits to legally sell raw milk, but they chose not to. They also chose not to obtain a business license.
3. They are being charged with selling raw milk to undercover agents, who were not members per se, but who had purchased one-time day passes.

Evolution is a hoax

blackoreb says...

"Get thee behind me, Satan" is a classic line, but most English-language Bibles fail to include the phrase. If there are inconsistencies between Bibles, does that mean God is a hoax?

THE COLLEGE CONSPIRACY

blackoreb says...

This video is so filled with so much stupid, I'm having trouble looking away. We should all NOT go to college, because that will make things better. And the government should stop subsidizing college education, because that will make tuition rates even higher and then will all be debt-slave servants of the dentist elite or something. WTF.

And apparently the NIA doesn't have the best reputation, having predicted a coming hyperinflation apocalypse a year ago, that failed to appear. And then there are allegations of some old fashioned pump-and-dump penny stock scams.

Sharks in a Supermarket!

blackoreb says...

It is kinda of weird to me that you are using this Australian film as an indictment of Hollywood. When I hear "Hollywood" I think of the American film industry. If this film end up being released in the U.S., I would appreciate it if everyone just pretended I never made this comment...

>> ^RFlagg:
How do these things get made? Quality films like del Toro's At the Mountains of Madness may never see the light of day, but we get this... Hey Hollywood, I think I know why you don't make the kind of money you would like to make, and it has nothing to do with bit torrents or Red Box/Netflix renting movies and killing sales...

>> ^probie:
I shudder to think this is Hollywood's answer to all the people like me complaining about remakes. I want original movies.....but not this.

Vote: It's Your Turn to Speak Out

blackoreb says...

There are a lot of insults lobbed in this collection of video clips, but no direct evidence of who the insults are aimed at. It is as if the Media Research Center thought that all tea-party folk would recognize themselves by way of the insults. That is harsh MRC. Not all tea-party members are extremist reactionary homophobic racists. And if this video really only pertains to those that are extremist reactionary homophobic racists, then the media really does have them figured out. This video makes no sense.

Bonus:
Voter turnout for the U.S. 2010 election was at its highest level since 1970 (for a mid-term election). And I gotta say, I don't think forcing babies and convicts to vote is not going to improve things
- Population of California (2010): approx. 37 million
- Eligible voters in California (2010): approx. 22.8 million
- Voter turnout in California (2010): approx. 10.3 million

Weiner Owns Speaker in Latest Rant (3/30/11)

Rush Limbaugh Laughs About Japan

blackoreb says...

Mr. Pennypacker provides a link to the wrong transcript above (covering additional discussion on the following day). For a transcript of the video clip in question, see the bottom of this page:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_031511/content/01125109.guest.html

I find the actual context to put Mr. Limbaugh's comments in a harsher light. He is not laughing at the disaster happening in Japan, but he is enjoying the irony of a disaster happening in Japan.

It seems appallingly insensitive to me.

How to pull a van uphill by yourself with ordinary rope.

blackoreb says...

The mechanical advantage would have been much higher if he had tied the rope to the lamp post, pulled the rope taut and stepped on it. Then he could re-tension the rope and repeat. Having two ropes and alternating, would keep the van from rolling backward, if that was a concern.

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Down by the River



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