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Rickrolled without internet! The winner of the "If the Internet Disappeared Today" contest; runners up here. Open thread below...

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Tom's picture

It would mean that the knuckle draggers and their Wall Street masters had won another round. It's the only form of open communications we commoners have.

fastfeat's picture

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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

MountainMan23's picture

When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?

Not soon enough!

Abbybwood's picture

Thanks a lot for mentioning it Jamie...now I'll NEVER get to sleep! (It's almost midnight here....)

Doh!


"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn

miss_kitty's picture

ring, rick roll and run!

MountainMan23's picture

The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex Pt1

Larry Wilkerson: The beginning of the American "Imperial Rome" and Eisenhower's warning

Pt2 The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex

Wilkerson: From US debt to the geopolitics of oil, the US empire will come to an end


When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?

Not soon enough!

Amitola's picture

Part 3 was just posted on The Real News site about 20 minutes ago.

Everyone should take the time to watch/listen to all three parts of Wilkerson's talk at American University. He provides a very succinct analysis of where we are, how we got here and what our prospects are for choosing the right path to the future.

I hope he plans to do more talks and be much more visible in the next few months - as his message is necessary and hopeful....


"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy

luis stoole's picture

me listen now

Nowwhat's picture

Boooo! thats for Hallooween however u spell it.

Handypants's picture

Tell me this is satire or a hoax?

A real Zogby question?

Federal Communications Commission Chief Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd wants the FCC to force good white people in positions of power in the broadcast industry to step down to make room for more African-Americans and gays to fill those positions. Do you agree or disagree that this presents a threat to free speech?

http://www.olearyreport.com/media/pdf/X-Olear...


"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that!
" ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )

fastfeat's picture

With language like that, I'm guessing hoax. I hope.


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Radically Moderate ad infinitum's picture

Said something like that in 2005, he was hired by the Obama Administration in August.
He also praised Hugo Chavez in 2008.
What he said in 2005 and what he does under the FCC will require scrutiny but encouraging "white people, good though they may be, to step down..." is not currently an FCC policy.


'Talk to the hand'

Radically Moderate ad infinitum's picture
BTW

Have I mentioned lately that I loath and despise Joe Lieberman?


'Talk to the hand'

Tom's picture

Mind if I join you?

Radically Moderate ad infinitum's picture

I'll have to make lots of room, it's a huge constituency.


'Talk to the hand'

ron's picture

and realize you all have moved on. I thought that he was talking about his generation as being the ones saying, "Step aside Grandma." It isn't us older generation and the younger generations are learning what it's like to lose everything. So, who ya talking to Beck, yourself and the rest of the Fox crew?

luis stoole's picture

skoal rebel lost his youtube account.
it is a sign of the times.

miss_kitty's picture

Gone? Obama needs to be inpeached guy? No more? Awwwwww, shucks.
He should write up a script for the Hitler clip. "Alright! Everyone using cherry flavored Skoal, leave the room!"

Pregnancy's picture
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ron's picture

personal demomstrations.

It's okay, I shoot blanks.

Tequila's picture

Fisker takes over GM plant to build better cars. Looks like we're resorting to bribing the Taliban to like us. Are the Dems finally ready to send a message to Wall Street about free rides? Obama's plan for a national power grid. Arizona joins Cali in firing teachers. The Repugs try to cook up a false double standard in how Obama is perceived for his actions compared to Bush. Kerry waits for Bush to leave office to attack him. Ahnie's film credits aren't doing shit for the local economy. Those shitty pilots get their licenses revoked. Schwarzenegger signs an ammo tracking law. Global cooling debunked. A U.N. human rights investigator wants Barry to get cracking on the Gitmo detainees. More anti-health care reform Republicrats to vote out of office in '010. El nuevo Manchurian Bush?

fastfeat's picture

Damn, that sucks!

Yeah, gotta cut those teachers jobs to pay the salaries of prison guards and cops.

Priorities...


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Radically Moderate ad infinitum's picture

Dems could easily rid the world of Todd Akin but they keep marching moribund detritus against him.
Please, Dems, move someone into Dist # 2 and go after this crazy mo-fo, he is vulnerable if you run someone that can challenge him.


'Talk to the hand'

Floridiot's picture

marginalized himself by going on Alex Jones and calling a K street whore, a whore.

Weiner called him "One fry short of a Happy Meal", so did Matt Taibbi (who said he peed a little after being accosted by him). Too bad, he was our truth teller.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/27/gray...

I have to give it to Ed Schultz for fighting the good healthcare fight.

fastfeat's picture

Probably not the best use of words, even if it's true. Still, the number of check marks in the plus column far outnumber those in the negative column.

Go Grayson!


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Floridiot's picture

By going on Jones he relegated himself to the "B" movie scripts so to speak, no more MSNBC or CNN for him.

luis stoole's picture

>>>>>Erin Matson, a vice president at the National Organization for Women, called the slur "absolutely inappropriate."
"Would he have singled out a male lobbyist and said the same thing?" she said in an interview Tuesday.<<<<<<

and to this i would answer, yes, yes he most definitely would single out a male lobbyist and call him a k street whore. who on k street is not a whore?

Alice X - Chomsky Nader's picture

The Corporation in one segment is here


statusquObama, change you can only pretend in

Floridiot's picture

but the producers can't plug for donations on that version ;)

luis stoole's picture

my memory is not so good these days, so the bonus is that this seems new to me. for the scene of the captured japanese being sprayed with ddt, i was reading that the director wanted to use another movietone, but it cost to much to include. here is a sample copy of the desired clip, sans sound, of cleveland schoolchildren happily eating their school bagged lunches as some crazy man fumigates them with ddt. hey kids! it's partytime!!!!

http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist/BHC_FoxMovi...

fastfeat's picture

WTF? While I can understand its (initial) use as an insecticide to control mosquitoes that may carry malaria, how does it control polio??


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

but it is sure fun to watch.

i can't find anything online.
there is another movietone of a whole town in georgia being sprayed.
apparently, spraying with ddt was quite popular with the kids in its hey-day.

fastfeat's picture

thought to be sold to us as harmless back in those days.

Pretty amazing footage, regardless of what was trying to be controlled. I wonder if any of these people are still alive today?


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

luis stoole's picture

a great plot for a documentary.

something tells me that they are all probably still living in and around cleveland. someone needs to get a team up there.

fastfeat's picture

He's from Cleveland, she from Chicago. Both are about 70, so they were right about the age of those kids. I'll see if either remembers such incidents.


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Tequila's picture

Agassi was on meth at one point in his career.

fastfeat's picture

If it weren't for the stuff, I guarantee I'd have not gotten my degree. It was also what kept me reading, propagating plants, recording music, etc for some years following graduation. Of course, as years went by, the law of diminishing returns applied.

I'm not sure, however, if I were in Agassi's position, that I would have come out and admitted my use. But to each his/her own.


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Tequila's picture

Have to pay 900 grand for fraud.

luis stoole's picture

sneaking into the background of the interview picture
those guys have too much fun (and maybe too much time on their hands)

Tequila's picture
Floridiot's picture

not so much anti Americanism as it is anti corporatism?, that the people from that part of the world want to be free to rip each other off and keep the money in their own country and live in their own Stone Agey way according to their beliefs?

On second thought that sounds like the South here.

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2009/10...

Describes her ordeal (kidnapped, held hostage for years in CA). She looks, sounds great! Really heartwarming.


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

http://www.wptv.com/news/local/story/Staying-...

Not really new, but on "Today Show" today.


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Nowwhat's picture

The Three Stooges - Moe Slap Happy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZgVRJ-H8U

just put it on loop.

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

Diabolus est Deus Inversus

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

Why hasn't there been a comedy team called Three Three Stoogettes?

Some guys like watching women slapping each other around.


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

fastfeat's picture

Bummer it's too cloudy here in Orlando to see...


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Tool of Society's picture

LoL one of MANY internet MEMEs brought to you by 4chan..

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