Video of the Day-Banks vs Credit Unions.

From Wimp.com:

Mitt Romney-The Candidate most folks want to get into a barfight with.

This snark and sass is courtesy of the folks at The Onion. I need some snark in my life lately. Too many things are depressing the living shit out of me. The state of the economy, the world and my personal pocket book..just to name a few of them. I am so bummed lately I had given serious thought to throwing in the blogging towel..but Betmo talked me out of it. I heart that woman for taking the time to talk me off the edge of the abyss. ;>)


Poll: Mitt Romney Is Candidate Most Voters Want To Get Into Bar Fight With

Sunday morning politics revisited by Veracifier

TPMmuckraker I love you guys!

A most excellent video: Feel Good Inc.

H/T to Larry Johnson's blog No Quarter, which has a new home btw..click my link for the new url.

Its from a site called BrightCove and it won't embed, but click this link and watch it..great animation of The Shrub and Krazy Karl Rove.

Tags: Feel Good, video

A few words from Randy Newman about our country

Hat tip to Earl over at PeaceTrain for this YouTube vid. Love ya Earl :)



Randy Newman sings about the state of our nation, the asshats on the Supreme Court and its worth the 4 min of your life to listen.

Impeach Gonzo..watch the video first

Robert Greenwald has created a little video of Alberto. After you watch it, go to the website Impeach Gonzales and sign the petition.



Tags: GozoGate, Robert Greenwald

Presenting Hometown Baghdad

A series of videos on Salon.com bring us into the lives of three young residents of Baghdad. The videos were filmed over the course of a year. This isn't something you can see on the evening news or in documentary form my dear reader, except on the website for the producer or their YouTube site.

Let me tell you what broke my heart. One of the young men, Saif, in the second video, just graduated from college as a Dentist. Yet he states he would be willing to work at a gas station anywhere else in the world than stay in Baghdad. These are short video's 2-3 minutes in length. I urge everyone to watch them. It shows how these kids are really no different than our own young people..the same wants and desires out of life. They even have created their own band, which made me smile inspite of their pain and suffering. The difference is the "symphony of bullets" and death that they live with daily. The video below is one of the series, just to pique your interest.




The following is Salon's brief description of the set of videos:

What we immediately found absorbing in "Hometown Baghdad" is not the fear, confusion or carnage we've grown to expect from documentary reports out of Iraq. It's the three men central to this series -- Adel, Ausama and Saif -- whose lives we see unfold in short, telling vignettes. We see them eat dinner and go to school, watch them go swimming and practice in their rock band. But in a war-torn, religiously divided city, even these simple actions are fraught.

On the fourth anniversary of our invasion of Iraq, when many of us have become hopelessly inured to reports of yet another bombing, the simple struggles of regular people take on a greater, more chilling power; we watch a way of life deteriorate before our eyes, and come to recognize the horrors of war in a way that the bold headlines or CNN news alerts no longer convey. We think you'll find them compelling and thought-provoking, and hope you'll write in to the Letters section to tell us what you think.