Assuming this guy isn't acting, which I don't think he is. I'd probably vote for him just because the constant bullshit and lies coming from the current elected officials during this period is tiring. If you had more truth and less posturing I think we could get to a point where Congress wouldn't need 3 months to vote through unemployment extensions that keep people able to purchase necessities to keep them as a viable member of the workforce. They still haven't even touched upon the few million people who've been unemployed for 99 or more weeks and are no longer considered unemployed by the numbers they use to figure unemployment percentages. I think perhaps this man might have a better understanding of the unemployment situation than any professional politician, and probably other topics they could help improve people's lives..but because they are so far above the common folk......it's like they are watching their ant farm or fish in a bowl and not an actual human.

Hell.....if he got into politics maybe he'd eliminate some of the leeches feeding off the working stiffs.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

"Basil" typo in the tags.
Take a step back and think about this, though. If this guy was running in your state, how could you not vote for him? He's completely insane. Don't you wonder what would happen if he was elected? He's like a big, shiny red button with a label saying "Don't press this button!" You have to press that button to see what happens. You will press that button.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:

4. As the actual CiC of the armed forces, Obama now realizes Bush wasn't just some neo-con crackpot and there were actually darn good reasons for following "The Bush Doctrine".


Ha ha ha ha ha!

Yeah, I'm sure Lockheed and Dyncorp and GE and all of the other defense leeches agree with you whole heartedly.

Why, there are billions and billions of good reasons to follow "The Bush Doctrine" according to them.

Easy answer, shoot them both, one is a leech without remorsewho needs more gold for his teeth. The other is a whining hippy girly-man who can afford to ride around on his nice shiny bike with his camcorder and thinks he too good to use the bike rack like everyone else. LOL

Amazing how much a modern classroom can yet sound exactly like a church in the dark ages telling people to leech themselves to balance out their humors.

Here's something Lee Atwater, the architect of the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush campaigns and mentor to Karl Rove, said in 1981:

You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can't say “nigger” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”

The idea is to package conservative ideas in such a way to attract racists, and provide them with a cover story so they have plausible deniability. In other words, so people like Southern Avenger here can claim "all they're doing is taking a principled stand based on their well-reasoned philosophy", even if they seem to be tolerating outrageously racist commentary and signage within their midst, and espousing a policy set that is generally condoned by racists due to its negative impact on non-whites.

These days it's less about racism per se, and more of a generalized form of xenophobia. It's the fear of people you don't know, don't understand, and who you don't want to have to care about or feel responsible for. It's why attempts to formally establish a legal responsibility to others (strangers!) are seen as intolerably intrusive.

Personally I think a lot of the rhetoric today is about dehumanizing the poor. It's often an expression of the belief that people who're poor have individually made some sort of choice that directly warrants things like losing their house, not having money for food, being unable to pay for medical care, etc. People who want on the government dime are all lazy leeches who're dragging all of society down, and if we give them help, they'll just stop trying to be productive, and try to leech more.

That started with racism, but I think just like the rhetoric, the emotional core got a lot more abstract -- it's not about demonizing black and brown people anymore, it's more about demonizing anyone who's different, so that the idea of having to take responsibility for them seems tyrannical.

I know that there's a huge percentage of moderately conservative people who don't buy into that emotional core, and want conservative-ish things done for pragmatic reasons. There's also a group of people who are True Believers, and think that the conservative ideology is morally superior to the alternatives, or that a libertarian policy set would benefit everyone greatly, even (especially?) the poor.

Those guys I like, and truly hope they find a way to purge the racists from their political organizations (i.e. the Tea Parties and the Republican party). That is, assuming they cool off on the calls for political violence (but that's a whole other conversation).

Building on what dft said, charges of racism wouldn't really stick if you guys stopped responded to it by saying "we condemn what you're talking about, and we'll take steps to ensure it doesn't happen again because racism won't be tolerated in our movement", instead of always saying "there's no racism here, and you're a racist for calling me a racist, racist!"

>> ^direpickle:

jwray: Aquafina tastes much more strongly of chlorine than my tap water. And the only states that don't add fluoride to their drinking water have a much higher rate of tooth decay.

Rubbish, plenty of countries that don't fluoridate water or salt have lower rates of tooth decay than us. There isn't even any correlation between water fluoridation and lower tooth decay among populations that regularly use fluoridated toothpaste. EPA admits the entire benefit is posteruptive and topical. There is no reason to ingest a treatment that acts topically.

>> ^direpickle:

And if you're super-terrified of chemicals, what do you think you're ingesting when you're drinking water out of plastic bottles? Haven't you noticed that the water tastes like the plastic?

I actually don't use any plastic bottles. I use glass or stainless steel for a variety of reasons:
1. More durable
2. Easier to clean (primarily due to being permanently very smooth, unlike plastic which is easily scratched)
3. Cheaper in the long run
4. Possible avoidance of BPA and other toxic chemicals that can leech out of plastic.

>> ^direpickle:

Anyway, some bottled water tastes good, but I don't buy it unless there's no free water to be had. But Aquafina and Dasani are just disgusting.

They don't really have any taste at all. I don't know what you're talking about.

>> ^Sagemind:

Everyone is allowed an opinion though non of you are qualified to have a "valid" opinion.
I'm a septic as to whether CO2 causes Global Warming. The fact the I don't see any "Official Study" to prove 100% one way or another leaves me unconvinced either way - but that's my opinion.
I also have never seen a video which proves that Global warming is truly happening - therefore my inclination is to believe the status quo and lean in the direction that nothing out of the ordinary is happening.
No proof either way - leave it alone - again my unqualified opinion.


You're a septic?? Aerobic or leech line??

Basically O'Reilly just wants Weiner to say THE BIG BAD IRS IS COMING FOR YOU. Weiner doesn't want to step into that trap, but ends up stepping into another for not answering the obvious. Only way he could have avoided it was to explain in detail what happens, which bill-o may not have let him get off, or maybe he wasn't 100% sure and didn't want to miss state, or maybe he knows the real method is to jam brain leeches up the nose of non-payers, wait for said leeches to hollow out their skulls in the most painful way possible then harvest their organs for profit.

I suppose it depends on how health-care payments show up on your taxes/paychecks, whether they specifically show how much you've paid, like social security or medicare, or whether or not its just part of taxes like defense, or any of the other thousands of things we pay taxes for that aren't itemized on our checks or returns.

And Socialist Nazis

Every large movement has more than its share of fringe elements who try to maximize their own kookery by attaching themselves to a more legitimate movement. For example, the anti-war movement in the Bush administration was jam packed with kooks. The Code Pinkers, the Cindy-Sheehans, and on and on. However, simply because there was a bunch of kooks sucking like leeches on the anti-war movement does not mean that the movement itself was misguided or composed ONLY of lunatics.

Republicans tried to marginalized the anti-war movement by falsely attempting to paint the anti-war 'kooks' as the bulk of the movement. It didn't wash because the bulk of the movement WASN'T anti-war freak-niks. The bulk of the movement in that case was AMERICA who didn't like the war or (at least) how it was being run. Exact same thing as the Tea Party movement. Sure there are a few radicals. But by and large the vast bulk of this large movement is composed of normal, everyday Americans who are angry and displeased with lack of government fiscal responsibility.

Ignore it at your peril, Democrat party. You can pretend the Tea Party isn't 'legitimate' all you want. You can send flacks like MadCow and Doberman to try and falsely portray them as kooks by focusing on the fringes and ignoring the majority. But what group is truly the delusional one in that event?

Hi all,

Wow, first sift and already at once in top 15! Nice!

I will try posting more from now on.. It's nice to be able to contribute to a site instead of just leeching laughs without doing anything back..

>> ^lucky760:
@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.videosift.com/member/Avokineok" title="member since October 13th, 2009" class="profilelink">Avokineok: I think you meant "strangest."
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Actually, after watching it, I think you meant "most talented."



@lucky760: I changed the title fro stangest to stRangest. So should be ok now..

Boo fuckin' hoo for Axl! Hey, he wanted to be a big famous rock star, now he is (not). Deal with it. Sorry that's the price you pay for fame, or lack thereof.

Axl Rose was, is, and always will be a punk-ass bitch. He was always starting fights with other rock musicians back in the day too. Vince Neal and him have had an ongoing battle for years. I think even at one point Vince got sick of his mouth challenged him, Axl did not take up his offer. That's AFTER talking a lot of smack about Vince. Now he's just bitter because everyone from Guns and Roses has a career but him. His last album (Chinese Democracy) flopped horribly. i heard some stuff from it. I couldn't stand to listen to it, but I have never liked his nasally, whiny voice to begin with so I might have been biased.

A couple quotes from Vince on the subject during an interview with Robin Leech:

“Axl let Guns fans down with Chinese Democracy, (fans) “have just gotten sick of Rose and his antics.”

Vince even claimed that Axl canceled a tour in support of the record. For (Chinese Democracy) to fail was pretty crazy after so many years of being recorded. Then the tour got canceled.

"A buddy of mine went to go play guitar for him. They rehearsed for three months, and Axl never once turned up. … He’s been doing that for many years. Finally, I think the fans just went, ‘F*ck it -- can’t do this anymore.’ You can’t be a fan when you can’t see the band.”

>> ^charliem:
9/11 doesn't count right?

Apparently not. I've heard these talking heads carry on about these things before and I think she just misspoke (meaning we haven't had ANOTHER attack). Regardless, either statement is idiotic. They always want less government control BUT when they start talking about national security they want to put a leech up your ass OR ELSE THE TERRORISTS WIN!.

Yeah, you're right. I just checked my paycheck and they're taking about a hundred bucks from me too. Fuck grandma, let her starve. She should have invested better. There are plenty of soup kitchens. Let's go back to the days before medicare and the new deal and income taxes, when the sick and old would just die and leave the rest of us alone. I tithe to my church, maybe they'll take care of some of those leeches.

One time as children, kronosposeidon, blankfist, and dystopianfuturetoday went looking for the missing body of a local teenager found by gang of older boys. On our adventure we dodged a train and something about a junkyard happened. Also Kiefer Sutherland was an asshole to us.

Also, blankfist got a leech on his wiener, kronos was the fat kid, dystopianfuturetoday OD'd but has a hairlipped brother and I was Corey Feldman and wound up doing lots of cocaine later in life.

"In moy cuntry, zer iz a bug we call d'eh Fox-Bug. It is about yah big, and it seets on z'eh skin, biting at one's arm. It sucks d'eh blood from i'z victim like leech. It is true d'at if one flexes one's muscle as it sucks, the constreected muscle traps ze bug, squeezing one's pores upon i'z stinger. Thus sending the trapped blood it was feeding shooting into ze bug'z body and causing it to explode. ...I believe you call it mosquito."