scariest thing i've seen in a long time. i wonder how many families are in that "sect" -- how many young heroes are there in god's private military? is it more like 200 or 2000 or?

who knew? i'd always thought god was king. turns out, he's just a petty warlord.

be sure to check out his website at http://patriotboy.blogspot.com

This was created by that most ultra-tongue-cheeked fascoblogger Patriotboy at Jesus' General.

I found this to be really effective, bluntly humanizing the consequences of the war, and the idiocy of the charade "let's kill our children and sing about it". Patriotboy notes that he found it haunting; Patriotboy is right. Long live Patriotboy!
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2006_09_03_patriotboy_archive.html#115727667798434165

fake

actually, i posted the speech two days ago, it's very good.
http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=9459

and he's a really good singer

Automata are really interesting, and the French took the art to new heights. From wikipedia:
A new attitude towards automata is to be found in Descartes when he suggested that the bodies of animals are nothing more than complex machines - the bones, muscles and organs could be replaced with cogs, pistons and cams. Thus mechanism became the standard to which Nature and the organism was compared. Seventeenth-century France was the birthplace of those ingenious mechanical toys that were to become prototypes for the engines of the industrial revolution. Thus, in 1649, when Louis XIV was still a child, an artisan named Camus designed for him a miniature coach, and horses complete with footmen, page and a lady within the coach; all these figures exhibited a perfect movement. According to P. Labat, General de Gennes constructed, in 1688, in addition to machines for gunnery and navigation, a peacock that walked and ate. The Jesuit Athanasius Kircher produced many automatons to create jesuit shows, including a statue which spoke and listened via a speaking tube, a perpetual motion machine, or a cat piano which would drive spikes into the tails of cats which yowled to specified pitches, although he is not known to have actually constructed the instrument. He also wrote an early description of the magic lantern, in Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae (1671).
The world's first successfully-built biomechanical automaton is considered to be The Flute Player, invented by the French engineer Jacques de Vaucanson in 1737. He also constructed a mechanical duck that could eat and defecate, seeming to endorse Cartesian ideas that animals are no more than machines of flesh.
In 1769, a chess-playing automaton called the Turk, created by Wolfgang von Kempelen, made the rounds of the courts of Europe, but in fact was a famous hoax, operated from inside by a hidden human operator.
Other Eighteenth Century automaton makers include the prolific Frenchman Pierre Jaquet-Droz (see Jaquet-Droz automata) and his contemporary Henri Maillardet. Maillardet, a Swiss mechanician, created an automaton capable of drawing four pictures and writing three poems. Maillardet's Automaton is now part of the collections at the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia.

*discard

i know it has been posted AT LEAST twice before, if not three times. this might be the number one "turnover" video. i can't think of any other vid i've seen reappear so many times, except perhaps the colbert w.h. correspondents dinner.
that's why i've saved myself a copy locally. watching it online is too unreliable - it often disappears.
wasn't grouper just bought by sony? i wonder what that may mean for clips such as this.

from the page:
When Edgar Bronfman Jr gained ownership of Universal Studios he got into some odd marketing campaign practices.

One of which is this ... all » rare, employee orientation video, that enlightened people about how things were going to change under new management.

It was comissioned to be written and directed by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, and it was, and Jr. didn't like it, so they scrapped it.

Great satire, video includes appearances by Steven Spielberg, Demi Moore, Tracy Lords, James Cameron, Michael J. Fox, and Sylvester Stallone.

actually, edison was behind the camera. that is not him riding it. he was 53 in 1899.

library of congress info: http://rs6.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/varstg:@field(NUMBER(0836))

entire video can be found at http://users.skynet.be/roumen/simpsons.wmv

Makes me wonder what factors go into a clip's longevity. I presume the bulk of the dead 'uns were pulled by networks or for other copyright reasons. But that doesn't account for all of them.
I'm curious, dag or james, do you have any stats on what percentage of the first few months' postings are now dead?

"Today on MSNBC, retired General John Batiste — former commander of the First Infantry division in Iraq — said that it was “outrageous” Rumsfeld was still in charge of the Pentagon. Batiste added, “He served up our great military a huge bowl of chicken feces, and ever since then, our military and our country have been trying to turn this bowl into chicken salad.”"

yeh krupo, that's one of the downsides of clipping from movies -- the context is lost, and sometimes the significance of the clip is lost with it, or muddied by its loss.
fyi, here is the official plot synopsis of 25th Hour: The 25th Hour depicts the last day of freedom for a young man before he begins serving a seven-year jail term for drug dealing. Prowling through the city until dawn with his two close male friends and his girlfriend, he is forced to re-examine his life and how he got himself into his predicament, which leads to a shocking, disturbing finale.