Sneakiest goal ever
By Jim | June 27, 2008
Who knew soccer could be hilarious?
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A sharp little powerpoint presentation
By Jim | June 26, 2008
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Sammy Davis as President, circa 1933
By Jim | June 25, 2008
Here’s a video starring a 7 year old
Sammy Davis Jr. as President of the US.
It’s naive, and sweet,
with a really nasty undertaste of racism.
Really nasty.
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Michelle Obama and “love my country” …
By Jim | June 21, 2008
So Michelle Obama said
“For the first time in my life, I’m proud of my country”.
And she is savagely attacked for that.
Here is John McCain’s version of the very same sentiment.
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Obama’s First National Ad …
By Jim | June 19, 2008
Barack Obama’s campaign has just released its first television ad of the general election. Titled “Country I Love,” the spot, which runs for 60 seconds, introduces voters to Obama and to his life story — and it makes the case for him as patriot, something Republicans are already working hard against.
The Obama camp says the ad will run in 18 states — Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin — beginning Friday. The script and the video are below.
Ad script:
I’m Barack Obama.
America is a country of strong families and strong values. My life’s been blessed by both.
I was raised by a single mom and my grandparents. We didn’t have much money, but they taught me values straight from the Kansas heartland where they grew up. Accountability and self-reliance. Love of country. Working hard without making excuses. Treating your neighbor as you’d like to be treated. It’s what guided me as I worked my way up — taking jobs and loans to make it through college.
It’s what led me to pass up Wall Street jobs and go to Chicago instead, helping neighborhoods devastated when steel plants closed.
That’s why I passed laws moving people from welfare to work, cut taxes for working families and extended healthcare for wounded troops who’d been neglected.
I approved this message because I’ll never forget those values, and if I have the honor of taking the oath of office as president, it will be with a deep and abiding faith in the country I love.
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Why Gay Marriage in California is a good idea
By Jim | June 18, 2008
From flickr user Rob Gruhl
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Barack on Fatherhood
By Jim | June 16, 2008
Another brilliant speech.
T
his man’s courage to be honest
about difficult subjects is powerfully refreshing.
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Why I am voting Republican
By Jim | June 14, 2008
Just a few of the many great reasons to vote Republican this year.
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Eagle and Swan
By Jim | June 14, 2008
Words fail me.
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Scientology, Elron, and Ellison
By Jim | June 12, 2008
Here’s Harlan Ellison talking with Robin Williams about L.Ron Hubbard.
The birth of Scientology comes in about the 5:50 part. Ellison says he was in the room when Lester Del Rey gave Elron the germ of the idea.
Hilarious stuff!
Here’s a reference from Wikipedia:
The Church of Scientology and its many related organizations have amassed considerable real estate holdings worldwide, likely in the hundreds of millions of dollars, as well as a large amount of other funds from the practice of auditing.[153] Hubbard was accused in his lifetime of adopting a religious façade for Scientology to allow the organization to maintain tax-exempt status and to avoid prosecution for false medical claims.[205] There have been numerous accounts from Hubbard’s fellow science-fiction authors and researchers, notably Harlan Ellison, Neison Himmel, Sam Merwin, Sam Moskowitz, Theodore Sturgeon, Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, and Lyle Stuart,[186] of Hubbard stating on various occasions that the way to get rich was to start a religion.[206] This is referenced, among other places, in a May 1980 Reader’s Digest article, which quotes Hubbard, “If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.”[207]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology
If you follow the wikipedia link, you can find more links that tend to confirm the main outline of Ellison’s nasty little story.
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