Was it just me or was the point basically made during the first question and the other 6 minutes was just Wallace being thick about it and Olson repeating himself?

that was great!
wallace thought he had a skate interview with olson.
notice how he tried to ask the same question three times in different form?
and each time wallace got rejected!
i bet he cried after this interview.

>> ^rougy:
That...was...funny.


I didn't find it funny. Maybe I missed the joke.

People's opinions are based on emotion and not logic. Sadly this applies to virtually everyone, without exception, for the majority of the time. The people in this room are just another illustration. They see a highly emotional story of someone nearly dying and then people on both sides see only how it supports their own position.

The sheeple mostly nod and agree that the big bad government would've killed this baby, as Olson intends. That someone points out the logically obvious fact that it was the current non-government option that already truly did sentence the baby death is entirely ignored by the audience. The audience does not even bother with any form of defense though, the emotional impact was strong enough that anybody who missed the 'point' is simply dismissed by them as crazy and not even needing to be dignified with a response or consideration.

Every day just confirms more and more that people are stupid.

not sure how this didn't show up as a dupe when you submitted it - both vids are tagged with 'leif olson', which can't be that common of a tag (can it?)

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Most-Incredible-Hole-In-One-You-ll-Ever-See

*discuss - both because my dupeof probably doesn't work, and to alert the mods of potential problems with submitting vids, if a tag like 'leif olson' isn't being caught by SiftBot at the submission stage.

mmmmmmmmmmm John Stamos


.......erm i mean.........


mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Olson twins!


.........wait.........that's not right either

>> ^rasch187:
I feel so out of date...just started watching Full House.


It jumps the shark when one of the Olson Twins starts sleeping with Lance Armstrong. Lazy writing..

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Slam, Poetry, Micheal, Jackson, Patrick, Swan, Media, Celebrity, Culture, Olson' to 'Slam, Poetry, Michael, Jackson, Patrick, Swan, Media, Celebrity, Culture, Olson' - edited by quantumushroom

Awe Come-on - This videos got tons to like!
Drugs!
Olson Twin!
God / Jesus!
Sexuality!
What's not to like?

Oh, and by the way, Pot "IS" way more natural than cigarettes. Have you not seen what goes into the making of them, there only about 50% tobacco or less in cigarettes and even that has been treated, the rest is chemically treated and has chemical additives to induce addiction and not that I care whether you chose one over the other but the truth is, She's right!
I Back up What I say!!!! Here it is! http://www.videosift.com/video/What-s-inside-a-US-blended-cigarette

Markets lead to selling people the cheapest, most low-grade swill at a "good" price. (MickeyD's anyone?)
They also lead to luxury items for the wealthy, and funneling disproportionate ammounts of money to a small number of people. Once you add in stock markets, performance becomes measured not on the quality of the product, but on the ability to make shareholders rich.


The No Child Behind initiative only offers punishment to bad schools, and no incentives. This encourages teaching to the test. Many of the people pushing for private school vouchers are involved in the private school industry and/or companies that come in and set up Charter schools.

I personally have experienced some really bad teachers. Also, teacher's pay is generally pertty uninspiring considering all the hurdles one must face to become a teacher. stat I found says 2003 it was $47,000. It does seem that there should be incentives and threats for teachers. Students face rewards and punishments for achievement in schools, but teachers rarely do.

Tax incentives are a terrible idea. More beaurocracy, and they benefit those who pay more taxes than those who pay less. a $5000 tax break does little for someone below the poverty line who only pays a few hundred in taxes.

Most voucher programs I've seen give the parent a few grand. This is useless to someone who can't afford to pay for the rest of the cost to go to private schools. What this does, is give those who can almost afford private schools that extra bump, and gives a bonus to the weathy who can easily afford private schools.

But it seems like a terrible idea to just ship kids off to annother school when their's underperforms and is shut down. an hour commute on a schoolbus seems like a GREAT idea.

Health care is annother disaster of market forces. The executives at many of the mega-sized heath care institutions in the US make up to 1000 times as much as a neurosurgeon.

I've never seen the army hold a bake sale.


kids are swarmed with vastly more stimulation today than a few decares ago. It's no wonder that a school system based on rural levels of stimulus is failing in this age of massively targeted advertizing campaigns. Consider the Olson twins who built a huge empire targeting and stimulating pre-teen girls.

Public schools generally encourage rote memorization, and learing through repitition. I went through school knowing more about the subjects than many of the teachers. I had parents who cared, and tought me many subjects before I even started school. I recall clearly being annoyed by molasses pace of kindergarten and 1st grade. I was doing 2 column math problems, while some of my fellow cretins classmates were reciting out loud "a straight line is fun, and now you've made a one" when they were struggling to learn to simply write numbers. By the time I hit middle school, the education system had taught me that mediocraty was an ideal to strive for. If I excelled, they didn't know what to do with me, and would give me more of the same pointless tedious repititious busywork. So I coasted through most classes, getting C grades in the dull ones, and A grades in the interesting ones. Mostly I would sketch in class, skip most homework, and ace the tests, which were easy. A quick skim of the reading assignment was really all that I needed.

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Great post - and it is amazing how calm they sounded. Why do they make the computer voice sound like Johnny Olson announcing the next contestant on the Price is Right?