[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmR0V6s3NKk&hl=en&fs=1] “The militant revolutionaries, ask ‘em to show you one revolution that turned out to be what it promised – militantly. Take Russia, France, Anywhere. What you do is smash the place down then we build it up again – and the people who build it up, hang on to it – and then they [...]
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How awesome is this. MSNBC has put the ENTIRE Countdown with Keith Olbermann show in podcast form (including video). Click here to subscribe in iTunes. That totally made my day. Now if they can get Hardball with Chris Matthews into podcast form I’ll be totally happy. BTW. I’d pay for this guys!
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In hindsight, this video was amazingly prescient. At the time I thought it was a bit over the top but it appears to be dead on. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo&hl=en]
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I guess the Bush administration jumped at the Opportunity to crush NASA’s Sprit (pun intended). This is horrible news. Ruins my month. For the record. $4M is nothing. Thats 13 minutes in Iraq. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scientists plan to put one of the twin Mars rovers to sleep and limit the activities of the [...]
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Clinton has gone out and said she’s raise $35M in February. When compared to Barak Obama’s $42.7M it’s competitive but not too impressive. Until you look at the numbers: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) was second in fundraising. She collected $34.6 million in February, pushing her total to $173.8 million. That includes $10 million from [...]
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Warning. This is a bit disturbing. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41aG1IqK8vo&hl=en] You can read more about this incident from Lisa Rein’s blog. I remember watching the local news the night after the 2003 protests and hearing the police describe violence created by protesters. There might have been isolated violence but the only trouble I saw was caused by the [...]
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The March 20th 2003 protests in San Francisco occurred nearly five years ago. I’m never more proud of my participation than I am today. . Back then, Lisa Rein and I were collaboratively video blogging the protests. The real truth is that Lisa was video blogging and I was watching her back. She deserves nearly [...]
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Check out this GREAT police officer on Youtube: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9yIBOnbJjY&hl=en] … well, now he has a lot of fans courtesy of RateMyCop: Based on the video recording I saw of him, officer Guillary seems to be a model for basic police performance. I reside on the East Coast, and we would be very lucky citizens indeed [...]
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It’s official. God hates CNN: A tornado swept through downtown Atlanta tonight, disrupting a college basketball game and damaging the building that houses CNN. This is almost certainly punishment for their horrible reporting in the run up to the Iraq war. At least according to the Pat Robertson theory of divine retribution: In the wake [...]
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Apparently, with 0% of the vote in, Obama has won the Mississippi primary: Sen. Barack Obama will win Mississippi’s Democratic primary, CNN projects. But Mississippi white voters overwhelmingly backed the New York senator, supporting her over Obama 72 percent to 21 percent. According to the Associated Press, only two other primary states were as racially [...]
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