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    Jeff Dunham -- Dead Terrorist -- Spark of Insanity

    in Humor - OL LOLOLOLOL

    Posted · Edited by anonrobt

    A friend sent this to me and wanted to post them here for whomever may find them funny. Some of it is absolutely hilarious. The first one can be inflammatory and a few here may find it offensive, so view at your own risk if you will.

    Achmed -- The Dead Terrorist

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouDRDzqTu0M

    Spark of Insanity -- Walter

    Part 1

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I226Sfgs0s

    Part 2

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFelEa8wAIk&feature=related

    Part 3

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb12nQEOyfM&NR=1

    Jeff Dunham is terrifically funny - greatly have enjoyed his Achmed the dead terrorist, as well as his other characters... glad to see these posted... [more, more... :) ]

    What are your most-watched movies?

    in Movies and Entertainment

    Posted

    I was familiar with all of these series except Sherlock Holmes, starring Jeremy Brett, which is available on streaming video from Netflix. I have watched the first four shows (out of 13) and found them very well done. Thanks for the recommendation.

    There’s much more than 13 episodes, I take it you’re watching the 1st series (Adventures of…). The first episode should have been A Scandal in Bohemia, I really like the reveal and introductory dialogue for Brett’s Holmes, it starts 4 ½ minutes in.

    Yeah, those are the 13 episodes I was referring to. I'm glad you posted the remarks that Holmes makes about his drug use. That part caught my attention as well -- it is an exceptionally well-written monologue -- and I was thinking about posting it myself. "My mind rebels at stagnation."

    Ghs

    Brett managed to get 44 of the Holmes saga in before he died [there are 60 total], the most of any actor in the role - and general consideration is that he is the best personification of Holmes of any over the years...

    ‘We Con the World’ Israeli Parody Video Removed by YouTube

    in Mideast

    Posted

    There are no angels in that clusterf*** in the Middle East. I'd like to know which side is being conned worse.

    How many suicide bombers do the Israelis send over to the other side? While the Israelis are not "angels" they are not insane religious fanatics, by and large. The gung ho Orthodox types are in a tiny minority and they are kept under strong control by the Israeli government.

    Let me know when you hear about Jews hijacking airplanes and flying them into tall buildings filled with non-combatants. Or when Jewish crazies strap on bombs and blow themselves up in supermarkets and pizza parlors.

    Ba'al Chatzaf

    Right, and likewise I've heard of Israeli soldiers bulldozing homes and shooting citizens in Gaza.

    No doubt there have been heinous crimes by fanatics on both sides that deserve no sympathy, whether through terrorism or state-condoned behavior. Ultimately though, structuring our vision into the dualism good/evil is about the most useless perspective someone can take towards resolving the conflict. I'm not saying I don't have a preference, but at least I don't have the imagination that one side is angelic while the other demonic.

    yeah - just the imagination of a useful idiot...

    BP Spills Coffee - all to true...

    in Humor - OL LOLOLOLOL

    Posted

    I know this thing is tragic, but the following video cracked me up.

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    name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="
    type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>

    What can Obama do about that oil spill, anyway?

    I know!

    Establish a commission!

    Regulate the hole and send his regulators over to shut that hole down if it doesn't stop gushing oil over the cap limit.

    And then fine the hell out of that hole...

    Michael

    Too funny... :lol:

    Beck and Hayek... yes, Hayek dude!

    in Conservative News

    Posted

    Definitely worth the time.

    Final thought...this is "THE" United States. It is NOT Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea or any other socialist hotbed. Are the liberals so blind that they cannot see the condition these people live in? And they see that as a prosperous future for Americans?

    ~ Shane

    Actually, it is THESE United States...

    Charge the Real War Criminals

    in Mideast

    Posted

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/charge_the_real_war_criminals.html

    The organizers of the Gaza-bound flotilla that Israel intercepted last Monday morning accused Israel of "war crimes," blaming it for the deaths that occurred aboard one of the six ships. Yet Israel acted within international law. It may enforce international sanctions when Hamas continues to import weapons for use against civilians. It may board ships in international waters if they refuse to stop. Its soldiers may fire if met with deadly force.

    There were war crimes committed last Monday, however: They were committed by those who organized and sponsored the flotilla itself. International law forbids using civilians to achieve a military purpose. It prohibits using civilians as human shields. It outlaws launching an attack when it is clear that doing so will cause civilian casualties. And it denies protected status to civilians who choose to become combatants.

    The flotilla advertised itself as a humanitarian mission, but it is clear that at least some passengers set out to "break the blockade" as their primary goal. That is a military aim, not a civilian one. Indeed, when Israel made clear it would allow the flotilla to deliver humanitarian cargo at the nearby Israeli port of Ashdod, the organizers refused. They continued onward, with hundreds of civilians aboard, to provoke a military confrontation.

    It is likely, given that five of the six ships yielded to Israeli forces, that at least some of the civilians did not intend to start a fight. They may have believed their mission was truly a humanitarian one, with a strong political message. The organizers used these civilians as human shields, whose presence would either deter Israel or embarrass it. And they knowingly placed these civilians at risk when they attacked the boarding party.

    Some of the civilians knew very well their purpose was a military one. That is certainly true of the passengers who brought weapons on board and attacked the Israeli soldiers. It is also true of those who joined the flotilla to break the blockade rather than to deliver aid. Those passengers -- some of whom have ties to terrorist groups -- became illegal combatants who broke international law by disguising themselves among civilians.

    International treaties like the Fourth Geneva Convention were crafted to prevent exactly the kind of clash the leaders of the Gaza flotilla sought. Though the terror groups who sponsored the flotilla, and the activists who joined it, are not parties to these treaties, they are bound by their provisions as customary international law. And Turkey, which supported the flotilla, bears indirect responsibility for war crimes the flotilla committed.

    The question is why no one -- not the U.S., not even Israel -- has accused the organizers and patrons of the flotilla of war crimes. Perhaps there is little chance such charges would be taken up by the U.N. Security Council, which rushed into action against Israel, though it still has not condemned North Korea for killing 46 South Korean sailors in an unprovoked attack at sea last month. Yet the case is very strong, and it ought to be made.

    Israel seems to have prepared a legal defense, but not a legal attack. One of the first videos available on the Israel Defense Force's YouTube channel after the event, for example, was a justification of the use of force to stop ships from reaching Hamas-controlled Gaza. That is where the debate remains -- whether Israel was right or wrong. The Obama administration, regrettably, supports international calls for an investigation.

    Instead, the U.S. and Israel ought to go on the legal offensive. We should accuse the Gaza flotilla and its sponsors -- certainly Hamas, and perhaps Turkey -- of war crimes. We should lay out the case, clearly and concisely, that the Gaza flotilla used civilians for a military purpose, and that at least some passengers forfeited their protected status as non-combatants. We should demand that the world's leaders condemn these violations.

    Addressing the war crimes committed by the Gaza flotilla and its supporters would put them on the defensive and shift the debate. It would also restore the critical distinction between soldier and civilian that world leaders have labored for more than a century to enforce, and which terrorists are determined to destroy. For the good of the U.S., Israel, and the entire free world, we must point accusations of war crimes where they belong.

    * * *

    Joel B. Pollak is graduate of Harvard Law School and the Republican nominee for U.S. Congress in the 9th district of Illinois.

    Well said...

    Ixtoc I 1979 oil spill in Gulf of Mexico.

    in News

    Posted

    In 1979 the Ixtoc I oil rig, a submersible platform had a blow out. The oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico for a year. One notices that the fishing industry in the Gulf was not permanently damaged and somehow life went on. The area in Alaska befouled by the Exxon Valdez leak is alive and apparently well.

    But the eco-phreaks invariably declare the Falling of the Sky and the End of Life as We Know It. Without fail.

    Ba'al Chatzaf

    Not to mention the crude which seeps naturally from cracks in the floor, or the tarballs that naturally deposit on shores - they're rarely if ever mentioned, despite 63% of such seepage comes naturally, not from oil wells...

    The Rewrite Squad

    in Ayn Rand's Lectures

    Posted

    Sotheby’s is about to auction the manuscript of The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Our Age, the catalog is available here, it starts on page 114 of 162. I suspect Robert Campbell of backstage shenanigans here, as the product description includes the following:

    Interesting to note is the fact that the original manuscript differs significantly from the published version in Rand's
    The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought
    , 1989. For example, the very first line of her speech differs from the published version. In the manuscript the opening line is: "Ladies and Gentlemen, I am speaking here today on the assumption that I am addressing an audience consisting predominantly of my enemies that is: of so called 'liberals.'" In the published version, "Ladies and Gentlemen" has been deleted and the word "enemies" has been changed to "antagonists." Other discrepancies between the manuscript and the printed text abound providing important insights to Rand's writing process.

    I checked the book and this is correct, however the audio of the lecture wouldn’t play when I tried to confirm it here. Has L’Alpha Bête Noire succeeded in creating an evil meme? J'accuse!

    Wonder how it compares to what she wrote in her newsletter...

    Self-centered perception

    in 2 - Epistemology

    Posted

    Christopher,

    I came to another passage in The Fountainhead like the one in your root post. This is a scene at the end of one of those nights when Roark has had dinner with Gail Wynand and Gail’s wife Dominique in their penthouse. Gail and Roark have become profound friends, and Gail admires Roark greatly. Roark has gone home, and Dominique has headed for bed.

    Gail “walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and he wondered whether the peculiar solemnity of looking at the sky comes, not from what one contemplates, but from that uplift of one’s head” (end of §V of the Part “Howard Roark”).

    Yes, this was the quote I was referring to. Beautiful, isn't it.

    I don't find this all that significant. Rand was accenting something important that many miss or do not think of or see, the importance of the self. However, I don't think she was saying that the self is everything and that all else is relatively irrelevant. It is not an either-or but a both and. It is appreciating the self in the very act of appreciation. But this does not mean the self is the only or main thing to be appreciated.

    Perspective. I am one being on a middling planet of an ordinary star among billions in the galaxy which is an ordinary galaxy among billions like it. However, I have a mind that can grasp that. :)

    Well said - and welcome to OL...

    What are your most-watched movies?

    in Movies and Entertainment

    Posted

    > Phil, even from a laundry list, don't you think one learns a lot about the person?

    Barbara, I do think the movie lists tell me something. But one can like movies for a range of reasons. Someone can like Patton or Star Wars for the action scenes, or Casablanca because they think Ingrid Bergman is beautiful. (Also, that wasn't my real purpose. I was hoping more for insight into the movies themselves more than to learn about the posters on the list.)

    > When I visit someone's home for the first time, I'm highly frustrated if I can't look at their library;

    I think books, especially the larger selection in a substantial book library than in a list of favorite movies tell you more. And once you see a lot of movies or books that indicate a pattern, you can infer a likely theme.

    > that's how I learn about them -- even if I'm not familiar with many of the books -- to a depth that hours of conversation can rarely equal.

    Damn! I'm going to have to stop showing people my book collections! (Fortunately some of them are locked away in storage away from snoopy eyes... :unsure::rolleyes: )

    > (Of course, this assumes they don't have a weird profession or hobby such that their books deal predominantly with the intestines of the ostrich.

    You could probably tell less from this than if they dealt with the intestines of the squid. I'm sure you would agree.

    > When I look at my own list of movies, I feel they are almost embarrassingly self-revelatory.

    I'll tell you what, I'll go back and look at your lists and see if I can infer anything. Then of course, even though it's against my religion, I'm probably going to have to post my list ...without explanation of course...and see if you can tell anything about me!!

    We are all open books, even in the dark... <_<

    "The Private Option Health Care Act" proposed by Ron Paul

    in 4 - Politics

    Posted

    This appeared on today's Campaign For Liberty site this morning.

    <<<"Introducing the Private Option Health Care Act

    Statement of Congressman Ron Paul

    United States House of Representatives

    Statement Introducing the Private Option Health Care Act

    May 27, 2010

    Madam Speaker, I rise to introduce the Private Option Health Care Act. This bill places individuals back in control of health care by replacing the recently passed tax-spend-and-regulate health care law with reforms designed to restore a free market health care system.

    The major problems with American health care are rooted in government policies that encourage excessive reliance on third-party payers. The excessive reliance on third-party payers removes incentives for individual patients to concern themselves with health care costs. Laws and policies promoting Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) resulted from a desperate attempt to control spiraling costs. However, instead of promoting an efficient health care system, HMOs further took control over health care away from patients and physicians. Furthermore, the third-party payer system creates a two-tier health care system where people whose employers can afford to offer "Cadillac" plans have access to top quality health care, while people unable to obtain health insurance from their employers face obstacles in obtaining quality health care.

    The Private Option Health Care Act gives control of health care back into the hands of individuals through tax credits and tax deductions, improving Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Savings Accounts. Specifically, the bill:

    A. Provides all Americans with a tax credit for 100% of health care expenses. The tax credit is fully refundable against both income and payroll taxes;

    B. Allows individuals to roll over unused amounts in cafeteria plans and Flexible Savings Accounts (FSA);

    C. Provides a tax credit for premiums for high-deductible insurance policies connected with a Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and allows seniors to use funds in HSAs to pay for medigap policies;

    D. Repeals the 7.5% threshold for the deduction of medical expenses, thus making all medical expenses tax deductible.

    This bill also creates a competitive market in heath insurance. It achieves this goal by exercising Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause to allow individuals to purchase health insurance across state lines. The near-monopoly position many health insurers have in many states and the high prices and inefficiencies that result, is a direct result of state laws limiting people's ability to buy health insurance that meets their needs, instead of a health insurance plan that meets what state legislators, special interests, and health insurance lobbyists think they should have. Ending this ban will create a truly competitive marketplace in health insurance and give insurance companies more incentive to offer quality insurance at affordable prices.

    The Private Option Health Care Act also provides an effective means of ensuring that people harmed during medical treatment receive fair compensation while reducing the burden of costly malpractice litigation on the health care system. The bill achieves this goal by providing a tax credit for negative outcomes insurance purchased before medical treatment. The insurance will provide compensation for any negative outcomes of the medical treatment. Patients can receive this insurance without having to go through lengthy litigation and without having to give away a large portion of their awards to trial lawyers.

    Finally, the Private Option Health Care Act also lowers the prices of prescription drugs by reducing barriers to the importation of Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved pharmaceuticals. Under my bill, anyone wishing to import a drug simply submits an application to the FDA, which then must approve the drug unless the FDA finds the drug is either not approved for use in the United States or is adulterated or misbranded. This process will make safe and available imported medicines affordable to millions of Americans. Letting the free market work is the best means of lowering the cost of prescription drugs.

    Madam Speaker, the Private Option Health Care Act allows Congress to correct the mistake it made last month by replacing the new health care law with health care measures that give control to health care to individuals, instead of the federal government and politically-influential corporations. I urge my colleagues to support this bill.">>>

    www.campaignforliberty.com 231,040

    www.YALiberty.org over 170 campuses

    Interesting - but doubt it'll get anywhere [unless after November?]

    What are your most-watched movies?

    in Movies and Entertainment

    Posted · Edited by anonrobt

    Secondhand Lions... one of the best 'kid growing up' films ever - my Uncle Homer was like those guys, an inspiration to living life to its fullest while you can - and going out in style... Robert Duval's character was, am sure, an alter ego to many viewers - full of independence, willfulness, and self assurance... so many good lines, too...