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Surviving Internet Fame

dancing matt & tron guy talk about their meme experience

via ROLFcon Respectably French

featuring LOL Cats, I Can Has Case Study
and Making It Big (Homestar Runner, Red vs Blue, Superdelux, Cyanide & Happiness)

Van Halen, Right Now, Is Pissed

“John McCain used a Van Halen song during his big speech earlier today and the band wants to make one thing clear — they’re not running with McCain.”

“Van Halen management tells us the band had no idea McCain was planning on using ‘Right Now’ during his big entrance in Ohio telling us, ‘Permission was not sought or granted nor would it have been given."

obama on palin

Think A Smoother Helen Chenoweth

quote about the new VP Candidate Sarah Palin read on Ridenbaugh Press

from Idaho RNC Chairman Norm Semanko's blog
From the national perspective, this is a bold, strategic masterpiece.

OLD FOOTAGE OF PALIN AS SPORTS ANNOUNCER ON TV

Jon Stewart and G. W. Bush

See more Will Ferrell videos at Funny or Die

Ron Burgundy Interviews Tom Brokaw

See more Ron Burgundy videos at Funny or Die

more nutritional plastic: usb flavor

via Tokyo Mango

flying cars land on buildings in portland

Watch raw video footage of what happened on August 26th in Portland.

Army and Navy special forces troops conducting urban-fighting exercises hang their legs out of a black helicopter Monday above the 23-story 1000 Broadway Building in downtown Portland. Officials said more exercises are possible tonight.

"Although the city granted the military's request to train back in April, there was no public notice of the training until Portland Police, which is helping coordinate the training, issued a press release about 20 minutes prior to the start of the exercise." - via the Oregonian

LETTER FROM MAYOR ABOUT THE EVENT

From the desk of Tom Potter.
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April 7, 2008

Captain Scott P. Moore

Commanander [sic], Naval Special Warfare Development Group

1636 Regulus Avenue

Virginia Beach, Virginia 23461

Dear Captain Moore

I am pleased to extend you an invitation to conduct Urban Military Training in our City from August 17 to 30, 2008.

In a letter from your command, dated November 14, 2007 requesting permission to conduct training, you stated that members of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group and Army Special Operations Aviation Regiment would utilize buildings in the jurisdiction of the City of Portland for this training exercise. I understand that this training will include low visibility movement, military operations in urban terrain, manual and low weight explosive breaching, fast rope insertion, live fire, low power training ammunition, simmunitions, flash bang, surveillance and counter surveillance.

I have been informed that all training has been coordinated through and approved by all involved government entities, as well as the representatives/owners of each property, and that all liability for your personnel and their actions during training rests with the Navy. I have also been informed that extensive planning and coordination has already been conducted and that Sergeant Mike Lieb of the Tactical Operations Division will act as liaison for this exercise.

I welcome the opportunity to support the United States Navy as you develop the techniques and tactics necessary to protect our country. We look forward to your group having a safe and productive training exercise in our City.

Sincerely,

Tom Potter

Mayor

david gregory on obama's speech

the end explains the country song that followed the speech.

Pat Buchanan Loves The Speech

republicans may postpone their convention

republican party floating skuttle about set being "over the top"

apparently, the republican party has completely missed the fact that unlit, the obama stage looks eerily like George Bush's stage - only wider.  see images below.

one tidbit: for all those who believe the "polls" that say they're neck in neck . . . obama brings in 75,000+ and mccain is having difficulty gathering 10K at his running mate announcement speech tomorrow @ 11am EST.

Obama Campaign Redacted Kucinich Line on Jailing GOPers

In other campaign news, The Hill newspaper has revealed the Obama campaign removed one line from Congress member Dennis Kucinich’s fiery speech before the convention earlier this week. Kucinich’s wide-ranging address criticized war profiteering, the oil giants, Wall Street, pharmaceutical companies and, most of all, the Bush administration, which he said invaded Iraq for oil. But Obama staffers redacted one line suggesting Republicans should be jailed. The line read, “They’re asking for another four years—in a just world, they’d get ten to twenty.”

via Democracy Now

watch kucinich tear it up at a progressive democrats of america rally

STAGE DESIGN: bush 04 & obama 08

BUSH 2004

OBAMA 2008

i hate the circle with the stairs surrounding.

to listen to alex jones try and drown out the live feed on MSNBC with a cry of "9-11 Was An Inside Job" watch/listen online

arecity twitter

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a diagram: swiftboating obama

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As has been extensively documented, many of the criticisms Obama has faced are based on outright falsehoods. The truth is that he is a Christian, not a Muslim; he was born in the United States; he doesn't refuse to recite the Pledge of Allegiance; he wasn't endorsed by Fidel Castro; and so on. Other attacks are outrageous distortions with a kernel of truth at their core.

The diagram below shows how the seemingly disconnected attacks on Obama all drive in a similar direction. Each begins with some aspect of Obama's history, family, personal characteristics, or beliefs. The attack then moves to one of three broad themes: that Obama is a Muslim or somehow foreign; that he represents a black radicalism more at home in the 1960s than today; or that he is a liberal elitist with a radical, even socialist agenda.

Some of the attacks touch on two or even all three of these themes, which is why they are represented in a Venn diagram. But all the attacks ultimately point to the conclusion that Obama is "not one of us," as the expression goes -- not Christian, not white, not mainstream, not even American.

Just as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth unleashed on the public a dossier of lies about John Kerry in 2004, this new campaign is on a mission to spread misinformation about a presidential candidate. We call it "Swiftboating 2.0" not only because it is the latest model of a political smear campaign, but also because it shares features of "Web 2.0" sites like Facebook and MySpace: significant portions of the content are generated by ordinary people and are spread from peer to peer. Swiftboating 2.0 combines these new information pathways with traditional media -- books from conservative publishers, right-wing radio, and conservative pundits and strategists on television -- to spread the smears as widely as possible and force them into the mainstream media.

To understand the attacks on Obama, one must acknowledge that they operate together, as one coherent, thematically unified campaign: Swiftboating 2.0.

via Mediamatters

michelle obama on nightly news

pretty good tv

people all over the world, join hands, start a love train, a love train

Tomatina, an annual tomoato food fight

via Huckleberries Online

WATCHING THE MACHINE SPIN

episode:  John McCain didn't love his country until he was deprived of her comfort.

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