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Tuesday, April 18, 2006
TWO VIDS
One funny, one serious. Both well worth it.

The first is from comedian Rob Newman's 'History of Oil' and is a minute long (takes one minute to load) and the second is some Iraq war veterans explaining the guilt they feel about some of the things that went on. It takes a little while to load though. For more info please read this.
posted by michael the tubthumper @ 3:18 am  
6 Comments:

  • At 9:41 am, Blogger Unknown said…

    couldn't get the first one to play.

    the second soldier (in the second clip) said: he had to take the human being out of the equasion. he couldn't look at the (citizens of iraq i guess) as humans. that says it all.

     

  • At 12:43 pm, Blogger Neil Shakespeare said…

    Couldn't kill civilians? Hell, that's just a little quail hunt for our boys. American kids grow up to kill. They've been practicing on their video games since they were five years old.

     

  • At 6:39 pm, Blogger pissed off patricia said…

    if you read "The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell", you find out that the soldiers quickly take the human out of the enemy and most everyone else over there.

    It's truly a sad thing.

     

  • At 9:45 am, Blogger Keir said…

    What's so special about looking at your intended victim as somehow not human? It's not okay to do these horrible things to animals either. Even when I have to kill a mosquito or something I don't torture it. I don't poison it. I don't rape it, starve its family, congratulate myself for it, get paid for it, and call myself a patriot or some shit for it.

     

  • At 1:40 pm, Blogger Yukkione said…

    great vids..reminds me of the sniper video I wrote about sometime ago

     

  • At 3:04 am, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I watched your video, "praise the lord and pass the ammunition". I loved it.

    It was hilarious. I love that song and I have been waiting for an anti war advocate to use it for some kind of creative message. It was very well done.

    The parts I liked were the American Battleships sailing to Europe to save them from a totalitarian expansionist threat that surely would have enslaved them or murdered them in cold blood.

    I also enjoyed the ironic inclusion of the "duck and cover" footage as a satire of those that are impeding efforts to defend against the current totalitarian expansionist tyrants that are trying to kill us all.

    I have watched it a few times. It really made my day. I'm sharing it with my friends.

    T.J. in Los Angeles

     
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About Me: Tub-Thumper - 1. A speaker or preacher who for emphasis thumps the pulpit; a violent or declamatory preacher or orator; a ranter. This blog will be a combination of reasoned posting somedays and an occasional rant. 28 years old, I write and research for a couple of websites and also do my own stuff.
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I have made a few short movies. Here are links to free downloads for them all in the order that I made them (as far as I can remember). Please feel free to use, distribute, disagree with, shout at etc etc

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    • This was a REAL song from World War 2. I was so stunned by it I had to make a movie

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