Video Open Thread 5/30/2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 8:00 am Open Thread, Politics

May 312021

This is the thread I had ready for yesterday, but didn’t want to post it then as we all had other things on out minds. I am also posting it early so that a thread will be up early for comments So please consider it today’s Open Thread and hang comments on it. I have even included a “Blast from the Past” at the end (with a bit of explanation as it’s often misunderstood.)

Glenn Kirschner – “A Tale of Two Insurrections”

The Lincoln Project – Memorial Day

Armageddon Update – Yes, Titus can be tough to listen to. But his facts are sound. Sadly, that’s getting harder to find.

Ring of Fire – Giuliani phone call – Farron manages not to editorialize too much (and of course Hattie is always adorable.)

Thom Hartmann – Why so few plea deals? You may already be aware of this … but he explains it so well.

Beau – “Let’s talk about a second Operation New Life and counter arguments….” I want one of those T-shirts.

“Blast from the Past” – Going Home – Paul Robeson
There is more to this song (and to the singer) than most people are aware of. Sure Dvorak – but without two other men (both nlack) it would never have existed. Harry T.Burleigh. William Arms Fisher. It has CC but CC does badle with music, so the lyrics are here.
There will be more videos this afternoon, also.

Video Thread 4/23/2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 4:47 pm Open Thread, Politics

Apr 232021

The Lincoln Project – Well, this is interesting. I believe it’s called “stiring the s***.”

Meidas Touch – “Impressed?

Really American – Mo Brooks

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-fire-postmaster-general-louis-dejoy
Glenn Kirschner – I’m glad he’s taking this up … and has information on a petition (which I’ll spare you tracking down through Twitter)

Earth Day – “Trash TV” – Every time this video is watched, it will fund the removal of one piece of plastic from the ocean. I don’t know for sure if that is true for embeds, but you can always click through just in case.

LPLP – “Welcome home, Rattler! Michael “Rattler” Markus, “who served during the NoDAPL protests as an Akicita (defender), positioned between police and water protectors to keep everybody safe, was arrested in February of 2017. He subsequently accepted a plea to a civil disorder charge stemming from his presence on Oct. 27, 2016 — when law enforcement assaulted unarmed water protectors with sound cannons, tasers, bean bags, rubber bullets, and pepper spray.” Sprry about the spring plains wind, which can be heard throughiut.

5 Things Cats Do Better Than Humans!

Video Thread 4/4/2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 11:40 am Open Thread, Politics

Apr 042021

This is something you don’t see every day. (You’ve probably figured out by now that Now This vids don’t need to be played all the way through.)

This is also something you don’t see every day. (Pat – hanky alert)

Republican Accountability Project – I think only Stephen Miller can claim more family members excoriating him.

This is a BFD!

Tiniest Baby Bunny Ever – also not an everyday sight

Just a bunch of bunnies doing Parkour – probably happens all the time, but who’s lucky enough to see it every day?

Beau – I certainly hope he is right.

Video Thread 4/1/2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 12:35 pm Open Thread, Politics

Apr 012021

Now This News … How petty… How Republican.

Now This News – Infrastructure Plan, Readers Digest version. No, it’s not enough, but it’s a heck of a good start.

Really American, now crediting Chip Franklin (makes sense to me)

OwlKitty vs. Godzilla. Short dialog at the beginning: “We need OwlKitty to stop what’s coming.” After that, just some sound effects and a little purring.

How could I post a video thread today with out a prank? And this one is epic – an epic fail, that is.

Beau on checking OFM’s science homework

Barf Bag Alert!!

Posted by TomCat at 4:42 am Holiday, Politics

Apr 012021

AprilFools2020

RESIST!!

Video Thread 3/17/2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 3:57 pm Open Thread, Politics

Mar 172021

The Lincoln Project – “Zero Sum Game”

[The Cloud Converter seems to get more popular every day… but the line moves fast enough.]
While you are sleeping Republicans across the country are attempting to turn Trump’s mega nastiness into the law. Bills that would dramatically impact access to your constitutional rights to a ballot, laws that would restrict vote by mail, even make giving water to those waiting in line to vote illegal. Why? Why would Republicans make this the spine of their party? They said it in front of the Supreme Court of the United States. The only way they can combat the Democrats’ Voting advantage is to play dirty. Politics is a zero sum game. Because that’s what this is to them – a game. While you work, while you pray, while you’re fighting for your families, the fight for democracy goes on.

Justice Matters – Democracy Matters – Can’t hurt.

Why Do We Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? | National Geographic – My theory is that “we” – now meaning people all overt he world, although it was in the U.S. that it really got big – celebrate it because it always falls in Lent, and, being a celebration, exempts one from fasting for that day. The same is true of Saint Joseph (March 19), though that didn’t take off as much, probably because he wasn’t associated with a group that shines at PR.)

This seems to me like going to ridiculous extremes to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Who knew walruses cared?

The ultimate telemarketer prank. Good thing the script is all on screen. The announcers are laughing so hard it’s a challenge to hear.

Beau on border conditions

Aubade

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 3:04 am Personal, Politics

Mar 132021

“Las Mañanitas” is a traditional Mexican birthday song written by Mexican composer Alfonso Esparza Oteo. It is widely popular in Mexico and other Latin American countries at birthday parties, usually early in the morning to awaken the birthday person.

Since an aubade is “a poem or piece of music appropriate to the dawn or early morning,” Las Mañanitas is an aubade. I learned it in Japan myself. All over the world it is used as a part of the “Cursillo” retreat, when everyone in the neighborhood who has ever “made” a Cursillo gathers on the final morning to awaken those who are just making theirs, with song.

I tried to schedule this so that you, TomCat, would see it soon after awakening, though “the first thing” is probably not possible.

Samantha Bee from 2/17/2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 11:57 am Politics

Feb 182021

These are all from before yesterday …but that are also the only ones up since last week

The Treatment of Peaceful Protesters vs. Violent Insurrectionists | Full Fr

Samantha Bee’s 5 LOVE Segments That Will Make You Go, “WOW!!! I did not know that!”

Finally, a Happy Presidents’ Day

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