In case you haven’t been reminded the past few years (or specifically, since you gave up on everything on November 2, 2004), this little blurb from the kos (by Dan Kurtzman, from his book) is a nice refresher. If you’re like me, you completely shut off the sound or even mention of bullshit lib/con wars years ago when those assholes stole the country again, effectively destroying what I hoped would be the best decade of my life. Anyway:
Liberals believe in clean air, diplomacy, stem cells, living wages, body armor for our troops, government accountability, and that exercising the right to dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Liberals believe in reading actual books, going to war as a last resort, separating church and hate, and doing what Jesus would actually do, instead of lobbying for upper-class tax cuts and fantasizing about the apocalypse.
Liberals believe in civil rights, the right to privacy, and that evolution and global warming aren’t just theories but incontrovertible scientific facts.
Liberals believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment that (1) prohibits another Bush from ever occupying the White House, and (2) prevents George W. Bush from ever becoming baseball commissioner before he does to our national pastime what he did for America.
Liberals believe in rescuing people from flooded streets and rooftops, even if they’re too poor to vote Republican.
Liberals believe that supporting our troops means treating our wounded vets like the heroes they are, and not leaving them to languish in rat-infested military hospitals under the outsourced management of incompetent cronies who think they’re running a Taco Bell franchise.
Liberals believe in pheromones, sex ed, solar panels, voting paper trails, the common good, and that, no matter how fascinating a story it may be, a president should never sit around in a state of total paralysis reading “My Pet Goat” while America is under attack.
And above all, liberals believe that it’s time to come together as a country and put a collective boot in the ass of shameless conservative fearmongers, hate merchants, and scapegoaters who are sucking the freedom out of all our souls.
I felt that was a nice reminder as to why we’re involved so much right now. You are still licensed by law to be enraged at the state of your country. Just as I am licensed by virtue to be enraged at the state of American health care and samaritanism. Like I’ve been saying for a while, this year’s fight is a complete downhill battle. Let’s just be sure to do our fair share and win it, and win it clean to rub it in. Then maybe we can pawn off this cynicism for some idealism and maybe progress.
Most important is that we always keep Fox News on the air to prove our dedication to reason and the First Amendment, in reverse order. Also for comedy.
SERIOUS PROBLEM, Atlanta area child has melted eye from internet video unusable stupidity.
twitter: “CNN’s eye-melting white video site with the wrong-aspect video is fucking horrible.”
White background melts eyes. Also the aspect ratio of the video is incorrect (is stretching fullscreen video in a widescreen player). Please change background to gray or other darker neutral color, replace player with standard “fullscreen” player, and promptly ship replacement eyes. Thank you.
Help. Leave a comment card today. I lost the link for you to do that. Our apologies.
Every time I update Wordpress they make a new goddamned version.
I no longer consider Huckabee a respectable candidate for president. I barely did before, but this is enough:
We’re not electing our pastors, priests, preachers, reverends, rabbis, shamans, mysticismists, or teachers here. We’re electing someone to manage a large part of the that godless heathen called the government. It cannot be tainted by one nor all religions.
I examined a pamphlet book type thing that fell on my head one day in this video.
This is part one of three. Stay tuned for the rest (the video feed on the right or do your youtube thing on it or whatever), which is a detailed discussion of your options when approaching the arena of electronic games in a manner that doesn’t piss off god.
IN FACT see you tomorrowhere is part 2 and part 3 (it is arguably worth watching all three).
I have one more note related to the presidential speech tag clouds. There are large chunks of American history when “constitution” was a regularly-used word in government address. Now is not one of those times. Here’s a quote:
I have seen nothing since I came here to change my opinion . . . but abundant reason to be convinced that our affairs are in a more distressed, ruinous, and deplorable condition than they have been in since the commencement of the war. By a faithful laborer then in the cause; by a man who is daily injuring his private estate without even the smallest earthly advantage not common to all in case of a favorable issue to the dispute; by one who wishes the prosperity of America most devoutly and sees or thinks he sees it on the brink of ruin, you are beseeched, most earnestly, my dear Colonel Harrison, to exert yourself in endeavoring to rescue your country by (let me add) sending your ablest and best men to Congress. These characters must not slumber nor sleep at home in such times of pressing danger; they must not content themselves in the enjoyment of places of honor or profit in their own country while the common interests of America are moldering and sinking into irretrievable (if a remedy is not soon applied) ruin, in which theirs also must ultimately be involved.
If I was to be called upon to draw a picture of the times and of men from what I have seen, heard, and in part know, I should in one word say that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seems to have laid fast hold of most of them; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seems to have got the better of every other consideration and almost of every order of men; that party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, while the momentous concerns of an empire–a great and accumulated debt, ruined finances, depreciated money, and want of credit (which in their consequences is the want of everything)–are but secondary considerations and postponed from day to day, from week to week, as if our affairs wear the most promising aspect. After drawing this picture, which from my soul I believe to be a true one, I need not repeat to you that I am alarmed and wish to see my countrymen roused.
That was George Washington in 1778. As you go back farther in time, they use more words and more diverse words, and the speeches are so dense that they had to have been given slowly. It’s jarring.
Don’t get me wrong; Mormons are always nice people. It’s a coincidence probably, but it’s true. Does that immediately qualify the Mormon faith for office? Not without proof that you’re not very serious about it. There are 0 facts in this video:
“Freedom requires religion, just as religion requires freedom.” - Complete Fucking Psycho
This horseshit brand of neo-new age backward talk has no place in government. He wants to reword his way to the White House all of a sudden on the Eloquence Express 101 Line. There shouldn’t be an acknowledgment of god in the public domain, Mitt. That’s not public business. Those are the rules. If elected, it would be part of your job to enforce those rules. Do me a favor; don’t get elected.
MYTH: Religion is serious business and should be discussed in reference to public policy.
FACT: Religion is always a potential platform of candidates that don’t address real issues.
There is not a limit to the separation of church and state; it’s a line. Government is not to go poking it’s nose in religion’s business, so why would religion think it’s place was to poke it’s nose in government?
To paraphrase, shut up. I have written congressmen asking for them to propose a new amendment to the Constitution creating separation of state and Romney. No founder ever wanted that shit anywhere near the office.
I started working on the editing of these response videos I made in reference to the YouTube/CNN Republican debates (as previously discussed here) at 6 PM. It is now 3:45 AM. I have uploaded the entirety of the 160-something megs two and a half times now, and I think I’ve finally gotten the goddamn thing to stick (all after a good three-plus hours cutting out myself making fart jokes).
This is essentially a compilation of my thoughts and reactions to the various things asked and said during these debates. Part 1 is here, and part 2 is here.
I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in film/video and digital media technology. What the hell people? There is no way I should be having this much trouble making this thing; i.e. everyone that regularly makes high-quality videos with the overshoot-and-edit-and-upload model deserves a significantly high five. I don’t really see myself being able to cope with Premiere for that long.
Enchanted is so stupid that it had to have been written by the small children slaving away in a behind-the-scenes writer’s sweatshop inside the it’s a small world ride.
Millions of people saw it today. Trillions of brains cells melted.
Please leave your change in the cup.
The problem with the Nintendo Wii is that there are so few decent games that the prices will stay stubbornly high indefinitely, even for used copies.
I have begun conversion of the unnamed show holographic historical record into a more modern, list format. All shows will soon be indexed and available from the official The Unnamed Show Archives page forever (or until a long time).
I’ve just begun, so only the first few episodes are listed thus far. Call it a chance to catch up with old times. All shows are still available any time (but in ancient ghettoweb format) from here.
You people out there; you know who you are. You are mentioning Ron Paul in every messageboard reply, in every dumb profile, and in every blogtastical entrifimication. Please stop it. He’s great. We know. That’s enough.
Repeatedly mentioning Ron Paul in everything on the internet is just going to make people react to Ron Paul in the same manner that they react to advertising. People will utter “ugh” and be reminded of the band The Eagles, and they will then proceed to dislike Ron Paul. It will backfire. Don’t overmention Ron Paul. You’re not even Republicans, and neither is he.
Please, internet. I implore you to hear my cries and stop mentioning Ron Paul like you’re some sort of motherfucking balls-deep, black-ops, brainwashing secret forces type of bullshit. You’re not brainwashing anyone or convincing them to vote for Ron Paul. You’re just being repetitive and annoying, and it will effect Ron Paul negatively. You are not tricking anyone.
There are a growing number of websites that display information about what’s on other websites about other websites aggregating other websites’ links to other websites. Here’s a few nice ones that show websites’s updates being applied geographically to a map (these are usually based on google maps, if not always) in nigh-real-time:
flickrvision - Shitty pictures people upload, as it happens. See many cats.
twittervision - This is stupid mini-updates highlighting all the retarded minutia people think is interesting, but you never see in movies (because no one really wants to hear about or see what people do in the bathroom nineteen times a day). It’s called “micro-vomiting.” I like to watch when it focuses on tons of Japanese updates in succession because I can’t even pretend to read Japanese anymore. This is the pinnacle of the short attention span.
wikipediavision - This one shows wiki updates by geography. See nerds flex.
This site focuses just on map hack sites. You could say it updated you on updates from updated sites updating their update feeds or pinging the update pongshooter…calling them mashups the entire time.
flagr - This is insanity on a level I am having difficulty decoding. I think I might not understand why people want to use the internet to only ever talk about the real world. Maybe my thirst for meta-data is drastically and dangerously above average.
Is it ok for the internet to never shut up about the real world? Isn’t there more than reality, partially because of the internet?
I want to see a map update visualizer thing for last.fm (and possibly newbtube). That’s an official demand.
Ok, I’m going to admit that I am a bit of a fag for maps. Not necessarily these kinds of maps, but I’m saying I like maps. I kept a world map I had to track earthquakes worldwide for a class up for years. We have maps of Mars in our bedroom right now, framed. I used to draw maps and make out with maps and buy map porn. I was on map mailing lists and went to map tournaments and hung out at map bars. I was map-bashed and publicly ridiculed.
