Crossing the line
As I said the other day in relation to Justin Raimondo (I cannot be arsed to link to him, you will have to look it up), conspiracy theories, which at some point bring in Jews, disgust me. I have just put the phone down on an acquaintance – not a friend – who likes bending my ear about how Karl Rove/Bush/Haliburton/insert entity of choice arranged to blow the WTC up, how there was unusual Air Force activity in the area at the time, yadda-yadda.
I’ll admit that these people may have been mildly diverting in their lunacy in the past and provided plenty of material for Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove. But to anyone reading this who thinks I wish to spend my brief life on Earth listening to these vile and dangerous pieces of nonsense, you are wasting your time. Go back underneath your rocks and stay there.
Thanks for reading.
3 commentsCry Freedom…a work in progess
The chorus came to me in a dream before last Thursday’s event; I recorded it on my phone. While waiting in a pub for John to get his car out from behind a lorry I wrote this song. The post 7/7 feeling clearly affected he lyrics.
Cry Freedom
(Dodge/Haithwaite)
Doncha run, just cry freedom
Dont let the bastards grind you down
Doncha run, just cry freedom
Theyll never take that from this town
Dont let fear get in the way
Courage will be there
Tellin you to stay
When things are too much to bear
They want us to be afraid
To live life all scared
Freedom is to be paid
Coming to those who dared
Band together in the face of fear
Rally round and be counted
Stand up for what is dear
We will not be routed
Doncha run, just cry freedom
Dont let the bastards grind you down
Doncha run, just cry freedom
Theyll never take that from this town
Doncha run, just cry freedom
Dont let the bastards grind you down
Doncha run, just cry freedom
Theyll never take that from this town
We’re Not Afraid!
And someone has created at a site to make just that point. And now there is We Are Not Afraid to help raise funds for the British Red Cross.
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This is a video capture of an Xbox Live session of someone playing Rainbow 6. Make that someone a whiny, obnoxious 12-year-old engaged in a petulant argument with his mother as she attempts to tidy up.
I can see how video games could lead to violence—me, I would have put up with about a minute of that nonsense before I backhanded the kid across his face and chucked the Xbox out the window.
Warning: The usual gunfire and whatnot; also, the little darling has quite the foul mouth. You might want to give this one a pass if you’re on a dial-up connection. It’s a huge (42MB) file and takes a long time to load even with broadband.
Update: I originally posted this a couple of weeks ago, but when I rechecked the link, the site had been shut down, having used up about 200 years worth of bandwidth. I googled around for the clip with no luck, but finally found a copy of it on one of those servers that hold large files for a short time, 7 days in this case.
So then, being mindful of my own bandwidth,
This is starting to get tedious, isn’t it?
I set about looking for a server to host it. Most of the popular ones, though, like Putfile, have a 10MB size limit, or are crawling with pr0n banners and probably some even less-savory stuff.
I thought about using Google Video, but that requires the viewer to install the proprietary Google Video Viewer. Eventually everyone will probably have it, but it’s considered poor form
As compared to bloggers who go on and on and on?
to send readers to some place that requires them to download new software. Unless, of course,
yaddayaddayadda
they want to get it, in which case follow the above link.
I eventually found ourmedia, which you might want to check out for your video (and other media files) storage needs. It has no limits on filesize, no expiry dates, it’s sponsored and supported by
. . . tapping watch . . .
heavyweights like the Creative Commons, Tucows and the Internet Archive, and best of all, it’s free.
The only downside that I can see is that it’s a bit sluggish. Whether that’s temporary or not I guess I’ll find out. If you click the link, go grab a cup of coffee or something, because it’s going to take awhile downloading and buffering it.
And in conclusion,
Hooray!
Oh, shut up.
No, you shut up.
No, YOU shut up!
No, you SHUT UP!
NO, YOU SHUT UP!!!
. . .
And in conclusion . . .
And in conclusion, if you enjoyed that pointless bickering, you’re gonna love this.
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