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Three-Legged Dog
My dog, Jake, had his front left leg removed due to cancer.

Story goes: in Jake's zeal to chase down some evil squirrels, he broke that same leg. The vet spotted cancer on the x-ray. Thankfully, it had not spread to his lungs, which, as I understand it, is the first place you look when you spot cancer anywhere. That was late summer 2005 when he was 10.

He turns 14 in November and he still gets a fairly clean bill of health, despite some breathing trouble for which he takes medicine.

Jake is well aware that he only has 3 legs and he falls from time to time but he's worked out a "fall system" on his own. When he knows he's falling, he points his chin up and absorbs the blow with his chest. It's fairly harmless. He's a good pooch.


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Star Wars Nerds Beat Down Punk Rockers
Kick his ass, Sea Bass!


written by shuac  | 1 hour 17 minutes 51 seconds ago | CH
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Trailer - Honey, I shrunk the kids (1989)
There's been a whole string of sequels to this film, the last one was titled "Honey, I Shrunk the Audience"


written by shuac  | 11 hours 59 minutes 8 seconds ago | CH
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Once: "When Your Mind's Made Up" Scene
...and I'm always glad to see other bassists play with a pick, like I do.


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Hippies Wail for Dead Trees
Have a Kleenex...oh, sorry.


written by shuac  | 12 hours 42 minutes 41 seconds ago | CH
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Midnight Express - Getting Caught with Hashish
*beg for hashish smuggling goodness.


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Rick Astley interviewed on GMTV
Now that he's a bit chubbier, he looks like Ricky Gervais a little.


written by shuac  | 18 hours 37 minutes 37 seconds ago | CH
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Clever dogs ride the bus to the river for fun and treats
"Four legs are better than two!"


written by shuac  | 20 hours 3 minutes 38 seconds ago | CH
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Bill Maher Turns Pain Into Hate Movie - Christians Rebel! HQ
This is satire, methinks. Not that I doubt Christians will boycott it.

But has there ever been a successful boycott of anything? Has there ever been a boycott that didn't merely serve to publicize?

[edit]
Amazingly, this appears to be real. I could have sworn that Bill Maher paid these guys for this.

[edit edit]
Actually, I now believe this IS satire. Check out their other vids on YouTube and I think you'll agree. They had me going for a while though. Brilliant!!


written by shuac  | 20 hours 54 minutes 3 seconds ago | CH
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Dear Mr. Obama
This kind of "it happened to me so it can't be wrong" thinking is exactly what will put McCain in the white house.


written by shuac  | 21 hours 4 minutes 16 seconds ago | CH
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Pirate Bay Legal Section (Comedy Talk Post)
I'm ambivalent on the issue of so-called "illegal" file sharing of music and movies.

On the one hand, it really is just a continuation of Gutenberg's printing press of 1439, a device that radically altered global communication. There were serious obstacles to this device since, practically overnight, it created the publishing industry, something that never existed before. It took a while for those in power to adjust to the "new way" of the world, but they eventually did. Not only did the powers that be adjust, but they took over this "new way" to serve their interests and we can see that happening with the internet today. If someone told you back in 1995 that Apple Computer would be the de facto music distribution outlet in ten years, they would slap you silly.

On the other hand, the movie industry is basically the only industry America has left. That and tobacco. And say what you want about Hollywood, they do provide a lot of entertainment. Will they be able to continue to make movies as file sharing grows? It's not like they have another job they can fall back on. I realize I'm assuming that a shared file equals lost box office/DVD sales revenue, a super-simplistic equation but think about it: as file sharing grows, what will ultimately happen to the existing box office/DVD sales revenue? Surely, it must eventually shrink and given enough time, the dwindling revenue would collapse the industry altogether, wouldn't it?

Not helping matters is the movie industry itself: they seem to be fighting file sharing in the same way the music industry did, making all the same mistakes, desperately clinging to the old model because it's in their comfort zone. How much longer will it take for them to start suing individual file sharers?

A mere two years ago, I remember talk of simultaneous DVD and Theater releases, the thinking being: let pure demand for the product shape the direction the industry goes. What ever happened to that idea? The natural progression of this idea would be to enable downloading of movies from a website, charging a nominal fee of course. But this cuts out far too many middle-men, hence the reason for clinging to the old model.

To summarize, I think as time passes, they'll all eventually adjust to the "new way" just like they did back in the mid-1400s. Until then, we'll see a lot of hand-wringing and brow-sweat.


written by shuac  | 21 hours 41 minutes 27 seconds ago | CH
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The Daily Show 9/5/08 - John McCain: Reformed Maverick
Upvote for the Al Swearengen narration.


written by shuac  | 23 hours 24 seconds ago | CH
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Bill O'Reilly Interviews Barack Obama (Sept 4, 2008)
With regard to "the surge," don't you think the fact that they've got the entire city of Baghdad literally split into pieces with 12 foot high partitions between Sunni and Shiite? Is it possible that these partitions are the real reason for this "success" and not the surge of troops?


written by shuac  | 23 hours 40 minutes 53 seconds ago | CH
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Another Great Example of Mc'Cain's Delusional Little World
I feel the message contained here is strong enough to be shown without the ponderous and annoyingly loud music bed. The do-it-yourself internet age has given us a wealth of video to watch but it has done nothing to further the craft of making vids.


written by shuac  | 23 hours 50 minutes 13 seconds ago | CH
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To Make Skateboarding More Interesting - Do It On Fire!
I really really hope he was burned beyond recognition. Is that wrong?


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