Video of the Day - More than just dreams

Because its not like the man was sleeping during all of his time in the Civil Rights Movement.

I particularly enjoy 0:35 - 1:10.

Video of Day - Roland Martin

I did a small bit of looking but could not find the study (but let me say that I'm terrible at finding those things). If someone finds it please, share with the rest of the class?

Video of the Day - Absolutely No Honor

Barely 2 weeks after a marine in NY schooled some local police on how they were treating unarmed civilian protesters some shit like this happens in Oakland.



Tip of the Fro to Daisy.

Video of the Day - OccupyMN helps a woman renegotiate the terms of her foreclosure

Check out the City Pages article about this action:

​Ruth Murman needed two extra weeks to pack up her and her elderly father's things and get them out of the home she is losing to foreclosure. Her mortgage lender, US Bank, said no dice. The eviction was set for October 31.

That was before an Occupy MN protester came walking up her driveway. Hours after the occupiers got her story up on YouTube in preparation for a protest at US Bank, Murman says, she got a call from the bank. She could have her two weeks.

"I would probably have been in the hospital if I had to be out of here on Monday," says Murman. "Occupy MN was so fabulous."

In light of this success, Occupy MN is now actively recruiting foreclosure families like Murman's.

So, tell your foreclosed-upon Minnesotan friends!

Video of the Day - Asmaa Mahfouz

Is there something wrong with me noticing a part of the work and organizing that Asmaa has done seems to include invoking the "real man" clause? I mean really we get past this "if you were a real man...." stuff?

It really ramps up at about 8:06 where she says, "If you are a real man you have to come with me to protect me and to protect our country."

Don't get me wrong I would definitely say that she is fighting for a great cause and her heart is undoubtedly in the right place. I'm just wondering if she is just trying to invoke chivalry for her own ends (and I also wonder if maybe other people aren't noticing this because they think her ends justify the use of such means).

Sound off!

Video of the Day - Pray until it Hertz

Sound off.

Video of the Day - No Honor

Discuss.

Video of the Day - Excessive Violence?

So I was over at Spearhead earlier and came across a story about two women jumping over the counter at a McDonalds and attacking the cashier. This cashier got his hands on what looks like a metal rod of some sort and beat them to the point that one has a fractured skull. You don't actually see the hits due to them being on the floor and behind the counter but you can hear them screaming so tread carefully. (Sorry for no embed of the video, for some reason I couldn't get the embed code to work.)

My question is this. Bearing in mind that a lot of people will say that when attacked they should fight back should he face the felony assault charges he is staring down the barrel of now? I ask this because if this were a video of an attempted male against female rape I don't think people would be so quick to charge said female no matter how violently she fought back. Should he be charged? Is this a matter of self defense? Would we react differently if the situation were reversed?

Let's talk.

Apples

Video of the Day - the best video ever

These people inspire me. Perhaps I shall put a megaphone on my grocery list.

Video of the Day - When I Was a Boy

Video of the Several Hours Later

It's technically still the same day that I posted the last video, but I slept in between posting the two, so it doesn't count.

Here is a musical and illustrated rendition of the fall of the Soviet Union:

Video of the Day - Trippy as Fuck Propaganda

I don't get it, either.

Video of the Day - I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SAY I LOVE BILLY JOEL FOREVER edition

Video of the Day - Jesus' Brother Bob

Apparently this offends people, although I can't really figure out why, because it's really just neutrally funny:



via Unreasonable Faith.

You are enterin'... North Country

This might be the cheesiest song I've ever heard... but it's about Minnesota, so I like it at least a little.



"Winter has a reason / otherwise there'd be no spring."

Yeah.  Thanks for that.

Otherwise, though, most of that video totally looks like the way I spent this past weekend.  Lots of trees, a lake, beer, and grilling.  No guys with goatees or cowboy hats, though, but that's okay.

Video of the Day - Trailer for every Oscar-winning movie ever

This is why I don't watch movies.  It's just too accurate for words, and hilarious.

via Ms. Marx.

Video of the Day - Humans!

Looking for a way to fuck up your planet?  Order some humans today!

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Video of the Day - the problem with the economy

Former Clinton Administration Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, explains what's wrong with our economy:




h/t Warren.

Breitbart's bewildering Netroots cameo, and some pictures

To his credit, I really don't understand why the only thing that reporter could think to ask about was a cocaine habit, repeatedly, even after he already answered pretty definitively.

More about the cocaine!  And prostitutes...?  Of all the things to ask Breitbart about, mid-lefty-conference-infiltration!

But seriously, hilarious.  You can hear my narrating a bit and giggling intermittently in the second video.

And here are some photos:

Breitbart, of course

First panel about messaging (will expand soon)

More about messaging, with Darcy Burner

View of the city from the Convention Center
courtyard

Settlers of Catan table

Joe Bodell from Minnesota Progressive Project
with Eric Pusey and other state-specific bloggers

I met these folks at the bar during lunch.
They came from Right Online, the conservative
conference across the street.
"They look so normal!"

I do not remember why I took this picture.

Me and @DAbitty, a Tweep I met
for the first time at Netroots