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Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
The Stoner Arms Dealers: How Two American Kids Became Big-Time Weapons Traders
This month's Rolling Stone includes an absolutely unbelievable story by Guy Lawson about two arms dealers in their 20's who won the contract to supply hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons to the Afghanistan army. Or as the headline reads: The Stoner Arms Dealers: How Two American Kids Became Big-Time Weapons Traders And how the Pentagon later turned on them.
Psychedelic poster for Mitt Romney’s dad George Romney
Peter Feld:
Bizarre psychedelic poster for Mitt Romney’s dad George Romney, governor of Michigan and a leading candidate for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination until his campaign collapsed after he complained that he had been “brainwashed” by American generals on his trip to Vietnam.Wikipedia says:
On August 31, 1967, in a taped interview with talk show host Lou Gordon of WKBD-TV in Detroit, Romney stated: "When I came back from Viet Nam [in November 1965], I'd just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get." He then shifted to opposing the war: "I no longer believe that it was necessary for us to get involved in South Vietnam to stop Communist aggression in Southeast Asia." Decrying the "tragic" conflict, he urged "a sound peace in South Vietnam at an early time." Thus Romney disavowed the war and reversed himself from his earlier stated belief that the war was "morally right and necessary".*Buy blacklight posters at eBay.
The "brainwashing" reference had been an offhand, unplanned remark that came at the end of a long, behind-schedule day of campaigning. By September 7 it found its way into prominence at The New York Times. Eight other governors who had been on the same 1965 trip as Romney said no such activity had taken place, with one of them, Philip H. Hoff of Vermont, saying Romney's remarks were "outrageous, kind of stinking ... Either he's a most naïve man or he lacks judgment." The connotations of brainwashing, following the experiences of American prisoners of war (highlighted by the 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate), made Romney's comments devastating, especially as it reinforced the negative image of Romney's abilities that had already developed. The topic of brainwashing quickly became newspaper editorial and television talk show fodder, with Romney bearing the brunt of the topical humor. Senator Eugene McCarthy, running against Johnson for the Democratic nomination, said that in Romney's case, "a light rinse would have been sufficient." Republican Congressman Robert T. Stafford of Vermont sounded a common concern: "If you're running for the presidency, you are supposed to have too much on the ball to be brainwashed." After the remark was aired, Romney's poll ratings nosedived, going from 11 percent behind Nixon to 26 percent behind.
Video showing Meg Whitman campaigning exactly like Arnold Schwarzenegger
Clever video shows Meg Whitman has made the exact same campaign statements as Arnold Schwarzenegger. Via.
In other fun political videos, watch New Mexico Lieutenant Governor Diane Denish accuse her opponent of wastefully giving border control agents "big fat boners" (instead of bonuses):
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Doubleplusgood advertisements for the International Society for Human Rights
Historical atrocities revised by Scholz & Friends for the International Society to promote the Human Rights' efforts to ensure a free press throughout the world. Via.
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Ultimate Simpsons couch gag by Banksy
Tonight's episode of the Simpsons features an opening storyboarded by Banksy. It starts off with a few fairly predictable jokes, but then the couch gag goes off in a very different direction. The opening takes a journey through the Chinese sweatshops that make the Simpsons, including abused pandas and unicorns:
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No one will eat lunch with Russ Feingold
Is there a better claim than other politicians don't like me? Via.
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