Jef Night - The New America

I have always believed that some of the best work of Jesus today is probably done through atheists while he waits for the Christians to wake the F*** up.

The cross is just another brand in America. People wave it around like a flag and call themselves exceptional. It is the most powerful political symbol there is for some people. In those places I think it just might be taking on a swastika like use. . and I do wonder if Jesus is actually becoming dead in people's minds there.

That is why this song caught my attention and made me cheer inside. I like the slap in the face it presents to our nation of political Christianity.

Any Cobb Dogs Ben Quayle

I am SOOOO sick and tired of Ben Quayle's commercials in AZ. He was running them in heavy rotation and he sounds like a complete douche. How do you judge a President against history before their term is even halfway over? What a moron.

So why not help promote this:

Regarding Torture

I figured I would add my own take on this situation.

Lost Generation

Simple yet powerful.

Bye George

Stick Planet - The Other Side Of Ballot Initiatives

This is a re-visitation of a comic strip style I have played with in the past. I keep getting ideas for political comics but I can't find a good artist to bring the concepts to paper. This style is not very advanced but at least it will give me an outlet so I don't have to keep describing the ideas to people.

52 to 48 with love

After this election I think what everyone needs right now is a big hug. A great big unifying hug.

I think this is a pretty positive concept, a conciliatory gesture to the 48% of Americans who didn't vote for Barack Obama. Make your own photo asking for unity and submit it to 52 to 48 with love.

This was my photo:

Read about the concept of 52 to 48 with love at the author's original blog entry.

Obama vs. McCain - Dance Off!

Let the election be decided... on the Dance Floor!

Remember the Wassaaaaaap Guys?

60 Frames brings us this video about the wasssup guys in 2008. It looks like times have changed.

The Vet who did not vet

A Dr. Seuss style telling of the McCain and Palin tale:

Seesmic - John Cleese interview

John Cleese (part 2): Obama, Biden & Fox News

Seesmic is an international web video site that asks everyone to become part of the conversation with their own webcams. See their introductory video at the link for details.

John Cleese has created a profile there and voiced his thoughts on the US elections from a European perspective.

Funny Or Die - Ron Howards Call To Action

See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die

Ron Howard, Andy Griffith, and Henry Winkler demonstrate the lengths they will go to endorse Barack Obama.

Blogger interrupted: The McCain-Palin Mob

Blogger interrupted brings us this very simple and effective video that simply asks questions of McCain/Palin supporters. At least one of them, the blond lady pictured on the video thumbnail, gets very confrontational without really making much of a case for herself.

And here's part 2:

The Keating 5 and Thoughts on Dergulation

The McCain campaign lives in a big glass house and now they are throwing bricks at the Obama campaign. In response, this documentary, and a companion website have been released.

The research section of this site is really an eye opener. It has all kinds of letters etc that spell out exactly what this was about. For example: This is a quote from a letter John McCain wrote to the Whitehouse Chief of Staff at the time, James Baker.

Regarding regulation:

"I believe it to be unwise, and I think it flys (sic) in the face of our recent efforts to remove the hand of government from the affairs of private enterprise."

Here's the thing that really bothers me: We have a society here which is made up of human beings. We have agreed that human beings cannot be trusted to always regulate themselves and that the creation of "civilization" requires regulations. . also known as "laws." Without these laws people's primal natures are allowed to run wild and we have anarchy, chaos, tyranny and death.

Human beings once had a free market where everyone was on their own. The strongest families rose to the top and gathered power for themselves. This led to a world overrun for thousands of years by a number of tyrant leaders oppressing their populations and robbing them, and the land, of all wealth. Yet even these tyrants admitted that they needed regulations or their kingdoms would quickly fall apart.

The United States of America is very high minded scheme which attempts to create a society with a level playing field. We pride ourselves on this intention to give everyone a fair shot at success. Yet this doesn't happen without massive regulation imposed upon all of us. By agreeing to this regulation, America has benefited from the talents of many more people, and it has become very powerful.

Why is it that when it comes to human society, regulations (aka law and order) are considered necessary and it is a high minded goal to create a level playing field for all people. Yet, in the financial world, where society's well being is directly effected, regulation is an evil force that is ruining everything? Is there really a difference between tyranny and fraud in civilization and tyranny and fraud in the "marketplace?" Aren't civilization and "the market" a reflection of each other and dependent on each others outcomes?

Why Bother?

Reidblog: If I had a 527. . .

This is a fantastic homegrown commercial in the spirit of the Media Crashers mission statement; from Reid Report. The titles are too fast to read in places but the message is there and they are basically footnotes anyway. You can pause it if you really want to know the source.

Brave New Films: John McCain's Ads are lies and here's proof

Once again, Robert Greenwald slams one out of the park.

Everything changed since 9/11

I made this two years ago but nothing has changed. It makes just as much sense today, on the anniversary, of 9/11 as it did then.

Stump Speech Sarah

So I went down to the Lee's Summit McCain/Palin rally, and was stunned to see such a large multi-state turnout (people from as far as Ohio came). Palin, of course, gave the same stump speech with all of the same embellishments and distortions for the election game-show that she and McCain are now playing. Afterward, I took some Q&A with the Obama protesters, and McCain counter-protesters and whipped this little 3 minute video together.

The video runs like this: 90 seconds of Palin's speech all snipped up, and then the reaction outside. I posed a few questions to the audience, mostly "what does it mean to be (your party affiliation) to you today", and tried to get "are you better off now than you were 8 years ago" -- people were really reluctant to touch that question, but one did.

McCain Betrayed POW's

Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain put together this video explaining some of the lesser known aspects of McCain's past including his efforts to shut down the families of missing POW's.



This is video of the actual senate hearing where he berated one of the POW family members who represented families objecting to shutting down the hearing.