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John McCain Blames Barack Obama For High Price Of Gas!
Braindonut

Fortunately the people who believe ads like this are that 20-30% of the public who don't understand anything that's going on in the campaign. They'll mostly vote for McCain or stay at home due to apathy on voting night. There's little or nothing Obama can do to sway such wilfully ignorant people so there's no point in trying to reach them. What I'm trying to say is the ad is completely ineffective, anyone who believes it probably already believes all the bizarre rumours about Obama so their votes are not worth competing over.


written by Drachen_Jager  | 1 day 21 hours 43 minutes ago | CH
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Stairway to Heaven on Harp - full version
She's missing the middle of the song:

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll
Woe oh oh oh oh oh
And she's buying a stairway to heaven


written by Drachen_Jager  | 2 days 18 hours 59 minutes ago | CH
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Counter-Strike - You Got Owned By A Five Year Old
Oh and in addition.

A P90? I think the kid just had a lucky round, his dad probably filmed him through a couple of dozen games to get one that good. His opponents also looked pretty bad. I haven't played in years but I'm pretty confident he wouldn't kick my ass.


written by Drachen_Jager  | 6 days 16 hours 28 minutes ago | CH
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Counter-Strike - You Got Owned By A Five Year Old
There's a good British TV series called "A child of our time"

They follow 25 children born in 2000 each year with a team of psychologists for testing etc. One of the kids was a serious HALO addict and in to most games in that genre. He was fine, a bit one sided but as they pointed out in the show, his games gave him something to talk about to other kids that was 'cool' so he was always very social and had lots of friends.

I think balance is the important thing. I'd be more concerned about obesity and diabetes than any mental problems from this behaviour.


written by Drachen_Jager  | 6 days 16 hours 31 minutes ago | CH
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Fallout 3: Perfect Life + Gameplay Trailer
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written by Drachen_Jager  | 1 week ago | CH
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For What It's Worth
Well here's some figures on the Iraq war anyhow. I can't find a number of Iraqi combatants killed so it's hard to create a percentage, but I think, given the numbers 90% is a pretty low guesstimate, it looks more like 95-98% if you exclude the official US count (which I think is pretty safe because they've been playing games with those numbers since the war started).

"the death estimate was revised to 1,033,000 with a given range of 946,000 to 1,120,000." - ORB survey

The Lancet survey (two years old I think) had the number around 600,000

The US government has the number a little over 100,000


written by Drachen_Jager  | 1 week 1 day ago | CH
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George Bush's Nightmare Phone Call
It's French. I don't speak it well enough to translate though.


written by Drachen_Jager  | 1 week 1 day ago | CH
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How Not To Use The Drive Through ATM
Lucky he had air conditioning. If he'd been driving with his arm out the window... Well let's just say it'd be the last time he'd drive with his arm sticking out the window (unless he went to England or Japan I suppose).


written by Drachen_Jager  | 1 week 6 days ago | CH
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Rent a Desert Eagle For $10
I'm sorry, .306es and .308s are not high powered rifles, they're very middle of the road calibres. The one in the video appears to be only a .223 which, in my books is a low powered rifle.


written by Drachen_Jager  | 2 weeks 3 days ago | CH
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Presto - Pixar Short
dead again


written by Drachen_Jager  | 2 weeks 3 days ago | CH
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Invisibility is possible
"the pentagon is not stupid."


11 billion
"The F-22 is arguably the Pentagon's most useless weapon system. Not only is it the world's most expensive fighter jet, but it was conceived in 1985 to fight a Soviet fighter jet that was never built. As wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo show, U.S. air superiority is not in doubt." -Think Progress

or

"the $81-billion submarine pushed by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, presumably to fight al-Qaida’s navy." -Truthdig

"Of the 72 programs GAO assessed this year, none of them had proceeded through system development meeting the best-practice standards for mature technologies, stable design, or mature production processes by critical junctures of the program, each of which are essential for achieving planned cost, schedule, and performance outcomes." - GAO report

Or how about...

"the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a program estimated to be worth $300 billion in sales to its manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, the nation’s biggest defense contractor and most generous donor to lobbyists and politicians’ campaigns. The program to build what Lockheed boasts is “the most complex fighter ever built” is also the most expensive, with estimated acquisition costs having increased a whopping $55 billion in just the last three years.

Lockheed need not worry about future profits, because the procurement schedule on this troubled plane has been stretched out to the year 2034." -Truthdig again

Nah, the Pentagon wouldn't waste money on stupid things would they?


written by Drachen_Jager  | 2 weeks 6 days ago | CH
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Wesley Clark: VERY interesting criticism of John McCain
"Wow, #894 out of 899... how the hell can someone so stupid become a pilot?"

His Daddy and Grampa were admirals.

"The leader of the free world doesn't need to be in the top of his class, but being above the bottom .5% would be nice"

Hey you're being totally unfair. He wasn't in the bottom .5% at all! He was in the bottom .56% a whole .06% higher than you had him pegged. Clearly bottom .5% is unqualified for the top post in the land, but bottom .56%?

Let's just call it a slippery slope and call it a day.


written by Drachen_Jager  | 3 weeks 1 day ago | CH
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Geek: Escher Cube Puzzle
Why Escher? I was expecting some kind of optical illusion...


written by Drachen_Jager  | 3 weeks 6 days ago | CH
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Al Franken's Opponent (Norm Coleman) Runs Worst Spot Ever.
Is he running for Congress or High School class president?


written by Drachen_Jager  | 4 weeks ago | CH
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Zipline...or should I say, "Stripline"
That's NSFW? Barbie dolls show more anatomy than that video...


written by Drachen_Jager  | 4 weeks 1 day ago | CH
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