JesterChat is still up:
http://parody.videosift.com/

and so is the Election 2008 Chat:
http://election08.videosift.com/

Each channel has a BLANK FIELD for embedding a WIDGET. So more channels are able to accomodate meebo chatrooms if desired.

There is also the possibility of having general chatroom through meebo - in case folks want a place until the new upgrade.

Meebo's chatrooms are public. Non sifters would have access - that is unless a PASSWORD is in place.

JesterChat is still up:
http://parody.videosift.com/

and so is the Election 2008 Chat:
http://election08.videosift.com/

The article in question:

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html

Current:
1. Comedy - 4520 votes received (comedy talk)
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4. 1stTube: the best clips of television - 2921 votes received (1sttube talk)
5. Music - 2178 votes received (music talk)
6. Dark - 1511 votes received (dark talk)
7. Talks - debates, lectures and more - 1272 votes received (talks talk)
8. Arts - 1213 votes received (art talk)
9. Live Music - 1104 votes received (livemusic talk)
10. Human Sexuality - 1045 votes received (sexuality talk) -- I'm all grown up now.


8 Months ago:
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2. Politics - 1797 votes cast (politics talk)
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5. Animation - 1038 votes cast (animation talk)
6. 1stTube: the best clips of television - 1004 votes cast (1sttube talk)
7. What the F*ck Just Happened? - 968 votes cast (wtf talk)
8. Election 2008 - 848 votes cast (election08 talk)
9. Cinema - 805 votes cast (cinema talk)
10. A Bit of Parody - 672 votes cast (parody talk)

1. Comedy - 15717 votes received (comedy talk)
2. What the F*ck Just Happened? - 12483 votes received (wtf talk)
3. Politics - 6280 votes received (politics talk)
4. What you FEAR most! - 5297 votes received (fear talk)
5. Election 2008 - 4025 votes received (election08 talk)
6. Cinema - 3372 votes received (cinema talk)
7. Music - 3330 votes received (music talk)
8. A Bit of Parody - 3142 votes received (parody talk)
9. Cats and Dogs + others - 2140 votes received (catsanddogs talk)
10. Everything geek - 1956 votes received (geek talk)

Obviously it should be alphabetized like so:
*1sttube - 1stTube: the best clips of television
*80s - 80s High School Reunion
*actionpack -Ball-Flexin'
*animation - Animation
*art - Arts
*asia - From Asia with Love
*books - Books: Printed Glory
*brain - Mind and Brain
*bravo - Bravo! Classical music and more
*british - British Invasion
*canada - Canadian World Domination
*catsanddogs - Cats and Dogs + others
*cinema - Cinema
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*commercial - Commercial Sift
*cooking - Good Eats
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*cute - Cute
*dark - Dark
*documentaries - Documentary Channel
*downunder - Australia, NZ and Oceania
*drugs - Drugs
*eco - Sustainability
*eia - Evolution In Action
*election08 - Election 2008
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*fear - What you FEAR most!
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*history - Spanning Time
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*lies - One Nation Under Truthiness
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*military - Army, Navy And The Air Force
*music - Music
*mystery - 221b Baker Street
*nature - The Serenity of Nature video collection
*news - What's Fit to Sift
*obscure - Obscure
*parody - A Bit of Parody
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*politics - Politics
*religion - Religion... It's the Opium of the People
*rocknroll - Rock & Roll
*schortfilms - Short Films
*science - Science
*scifi - Sci-Fi Fandom
*sexuality - Human Sexuality
*spacy - The Clouds and Beyond
*sports - Sports Sift
*standup - Standup Comedy
*teens - (oh sh*t, hormones)
*terrible - Terrible! Who gave thatt a green light?
*timeshift - Altered Time
*travel - Travel
*videogames - Video (game) Sift
*vintage - VideoSift's Archive of Vintage Classics
*viral - Viral Ads
*waronterror - Global War on Terror
*wheels - Wheels Channel
*wildwestshow - Wild West Show
*wings - Wings!
*woohoo - Matt Groening & Friends Appreciation
*worldaffairs - Domestic Policy & Foreign Affairs
*wtf - What the F*ck Just Happened?

I'm going to go ahead and make an exhaustive list of suggestions in the order they are now:
*teens - (oh sh*t, hormones)
*parody - A Bit of Parody
*horrorshow - All Night Horrorshow

*timeshift - Altered Time
*animation - Animation
*military - Army, Navy And The Air Force
*art - Arts
*downunder - Australia, NZ and Oceania
*actionpack -Ball-Flexin'
*books - Books: Printed Glory
*bravo - Bravo! Classical music and more
*british - British Invasion

*comedy - Comedy
*cute - Cute
*canada - Canadian World Domination
*catsanddogs - Cats and Dogs + others
*cinema - Cinema
*commercial - Commercial Sift
*cult - CultSift

*dark - Dark
*documentaries - Documentary Channel
*worldaffairs - Domestic Policy & Foreign Affairs
*drugs - Drugs

*election08 - Election 2008
*geek - Everything geek
*eia - Evolution In Action

*femme - FemmeSift
*asia - From Asia with Love

*gay - Gay
*waronterror - Global War on Terror
*cooking - Good Eats
*grindhouse - Grindhouse Cinema

*happy - Happy
*hiphop - Hip Hop Culture
*howto - How To Do Anything, Anywhere, Anytime
*sexuality - Human Sexuality
*humanitarian - Humanitarian Sift

*islam - Islamica

*jazz - Jazz & Blues

*kids - Kid Sift

*latenight - Late Night
*livemusic - Live Music
*love - Love and relationships

*music - Music
*woohoo - Matt Groening & Friends Appreciation
*brain - Mind and Brain

*obscure - Obscure
*lies - One Nation Under Truthiness

*politics - Politics
*philosophy - Philosophical Society

*religion - Religion... It's the Opium of the People
*rocknroll - Rock & Roll

*scifi - Sci-Fi Fandom
*science - Science
*schortfilms - Short Films
*timeshift - Spanning Time
*sports - Sports Sift
*standup - Standup Comedy
*eco - Sustainability

*terrible - Terrible! Who gave thatt a green light?
*engineering - The agony and the ecstacy of engineering
*spacy - The Clouds and Beyond
*future - The Future
*meme - The internet's best hits
*nature - The Serenity of Nature video collection
*travel - Travel

*videogames - Video (game) Sift
*vintage - VideoSift's Archive of Vintage Classics
*viral - Viral Ads

*wtf - What the F*ck Just Happened?
*fear - What you FEAR most!
*news - What's Fit to Sift
*wheels - Wheels Channel
*wildwestshow - Wild West Show
*wings - Wings!

*1sttube - 1stTube: the best clips of television

*mystery - 221b Baker Street

*80s - 80s High School Reunion

Reentering this discussion too late to really matter, and I'm not even sure if the people who downvoted me for trying to be a voice of reason will see this, but if you read the reports at snopes (http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/bannedbooks.asp) and factcheck (http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_palin.html), you'll see that the question of banning books WAS hypothetical, and that even the librarian in question says she was never actually asked to ban any books.

I latched on to the bit about book banning in this ad, because otherwise it is an EXCELLENT ad that hits all the high points. The point of my comment was to draw attention to the fact that accusing Palin of trying to ban books was an unnecessary lie in a very powerful ad, and that lie could have been enough to turn off a moderate who might otherwise have been swayed, because it injects that little hint of suspicion that there might be other lies in the ad.

The incredible number of negative, falsehood filled advertisements are a big reason the Republicans lost the election, and I really think it's a shame that a small, independent Democrat group decided to throw in a completely debunked claim when they had such an otherwise factual and POWERFUL advertisement.

When the truth is so effective, why throw in even a half-truth?

>> ^Sketch:
At 95% of precincts reporting, it looks as though Prop 8 is passing. Congratulations Californians, you've officially written BIGOTRY into the STATE CONSTITUTION! You officially care about CHICKENS more than you do about PEOPLE! I couldn't be more incensed and ashamed!


What REALLY saddens me is looking at the CNN exit polling on Prop 8. Most of the voting by racial demographic is surprisingly evenly split. Even the Latino vote is 53/47, which caught me off-guard with the strong Roman Catholic influences there. Only one racial demographic stands out from that near even split - African-Americans voted SEVENTY PERCENT in favor of prop 8.

Seventy percent...

That statistic fills me with sorrow.



*edit* link to CNN exit polling on prop 8:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#CAI01p1

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Obama, Racism, race, white, people, vote, election, 2008, win' to 'banned, redacted' - edited by nibiyabi

Amoung those responsible for the current economic crisis is "Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, who in 2004, near the peak of the housing bubble, encouraged Americans to take out adjustable rate mortgages."

FactCheck.org

Amoung those responsible for the current economic crisis is "Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, who in 2004, near the peak of the housing bubble, encouraged Americans to take out adjustable rate mortgages."

FactCheck.org

Tags for this video have been changed from 'biden, obama, media, hack, presidential, election, 2008, barbara west' to 'biden, obama, media, hack, presidential, election, 2008, barbara west, acorn' - edited by cybrbeast

>> ^NetRunner:
1. Politics - 17804 votes received (politics talk)
2. Election 2008 - 14825 votes received (election08 talk)
3. What's Fit to Sift - 8373 votes received (news talk)
4. One Nation Under Truthiness - 6093 votes received (lies talk)
5. Comedy - 3836 votes received (comedy talk)
6. Global War on Terror - 3528 votes received (waronterror talk)
7. Late Night - 2373 votes received (latenight talk)
8. Domestic Policy & Foreign Affairs - 2164 votes received (worldaffairs talk)
9. What you FEAR most! - 1337 votes received (fear talk)
10. A Bit of Parody - 1255 votes received (parody talk)


Look KP!!! Fear in someone else's top ten!!! In your face like a pair of balls! Yes! Can you feel that?! YES! YES! I win! My balls are bigger than yours, mister books!

You're a better contributor to my channel than I am. Seriously, you have 15% of all the votes cast for *lies.

In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
1. Politics - 17804 votes received (politics talk)
2. Election 2008 - 14825 votes received (election08 talk)
3. What's Fit to Sift - 8373 votes received (news talk)
4. One Nation Under Truthiness - 6093 votes received (lies talk)
5. Comedy - 3836 votes received (comedy talk)
6. Global War on Terror - 3528 votes received (waronterror talk)
7. Late Night - 2373 votes received (latenight talk)
8. Domestic Policy & Foreign Affairs - 2164 votes received (worldaffairs talk)
9. What you FEAR most! - 1337 votes received (fear talk)
10. A Bit of Parody - 1255 votes received (parody talk)