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Reporter attacks First Dog, gets bit... dumbass...

Payback (http://news.videosift.com/member/Payback) — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:42:13 -0800

(3 comments - 187 views)
A reporter practically runs up and strikes Bush's dog (hyperbole, but he obviously has no clue how to greet a strange dog) and gets bit.

...but I can't post the video... someone else?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/27577655#27577655

- Payback

State Ballot Measures Summation: Prop 8 and More

NordlichReiter (http://nordlichreiter.videosift.com) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:45:49 -0800

(18 comments - 241 views)
Cutting right to the chase, I site CNN as my main source for information, and will attempt to corroborate with other sources.

Arizona passes proposition against gay marriage:

Arizona Proposition 102:
Ban on Gay Marriage
Yes:1,039,606:56% - Yes to ban
No:801,279:44%
99% of precincts reporting

Arkansas bans gay couples adopting children.

Arkansas Initiative 1:
Ban on Gay Couples Adopting Children
Yes:573,774:57% - Yes to Ban
No:434,344:43%
96% of precincts reporting

Proposition 8 California

California Proposition 8:
Ban on Gay Marriage
Yes:5,019,930:52% - Yes to ban
No:4,656,291:48%
92% of precincts reporting

Doctor Assisted Suicide Washington State

Washington Initiative 1000:
Allow Doctor-Assisted Suicide
Yes:931,707:59% - winning, yes to assisted suicide
No:653,275:41%
54% of precincts reporting

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/ballot.measures/

- NordlichReiter

We've been weighed and measured!

Sagemind (http://news.videosift.com/member/Sagemind) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:28:07 -0700

(15 comments - 219 views)
Has anyone else seen this...
http://www.quantcast.com/videosift.com

"Videosift.com is a top 10,000 site that reaches over 169K U.S. monthly people. The site is popular among a skewing older, more educated audience.The typical visitor reads Wonkette and subscribes to National Geographic. "

- Sagemind

Guardian RSS feeds now contain FULL articles

radx (http://news.videosift.com/member/radx) — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:35:28 -0700

(1 comment - 194 views)
Today guardian.co.uk rolled out a major upgrade to the RSS feeds.
Our feeds now contain the full content of each article so that you can take guardian.co.uk with you wherever you prefer to get your news.

Kudos again! Finally some progress, from pull to push.

- radx

Obama vs. McCain :: (A Collection of Videos and Articles) ::

Johnald_Chaffinch (http://news.videosift.com/member/Johnald_Chaffinch) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:29:41 -0700

(0 comments - 131 views)
http://johnaldchaffinch.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-vs-mccain-wisest-choice.html

A bunch load of the best videos about Obama and McCain. A lot of the vids are on Videosift
http://xrl.in/j3h

- Johnald_Chaffinch

Burdturgler Becomes Gold

gourmetemu (http://gourmetemu.videosift.com) — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:15:43 -0700

(39 comments - 331 views)
1 Month 1 Week ago Burdturgler join our ranks. And now he has a gold star.

What a jerk. Please tell him so. And then go to his pqueue http://www.videosift.com/member/burdturgler and vote up his one video so he knows what a jerk he is...through irony.

- gourmetemu

Alright, who stashed all the opium?

radx (http://news.videosift.com/member/radx) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:19:34 -0700

(3 comments - 244 views)

It's a mystery that has got British law enforcement officials and others across the planet scratching their heads. Put bluntly, enough heroin to supply the world's demand for years has simply disappeared.

A crop of 7,700 tonnes will produce around 1,100 tonnes of heroin - it basically works on a 7:1 ratio.The mystery is that the global demand for heroin is less than half that. In other words, Afghanistan only needs to produce 3,500 tonnes to satisfy every known heroin user on the planet.

Source: BBC News

Friend of mine implied that it might have been the Cocaine Import Agency - that caused an abnormal amount of coffee to exit my body through the nostrils

- radx

Audio preview of comments on YouTube

diction (http://news.videosift.com/member/diction) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:35:39 -0700

(2 comments - 182 views)
Just go to any video on YouTube to check it out!
Exactly the kind of mindless fun I needed to relax a bit, making a robotic voice say funny stuff.
Seems like someone over there read http://xkcd.com/481/

Post on xkcd blog: http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/10/08/youtube-audio-preview/

- diction

McCain appeals to animal emotions, Obama Argues Rationally

marinara (http://news.videosift.com/member/marinara) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:27:20 -0700

(2 comments - 268 views)
McCain can whip up primal emotions faster than Obama can calm them down. I'm thinking our constitution doesn't look so smart after all.

- marinara

Hooray for the bailout!

MrConrads (http://news.videosift.com/member/MrConrads) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:00:01 -0700

(1 comment - 146 views)
I hate to be too reactionary after only reading one source on the subject but this really infuriates me. This is exactly why I did'nt support that damned 700 billion dollar bailout.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081006/ap_on_go_co/meltdown_lehman

I don't know if anyone else has heard or read about that fact that there was a second bailout plan option called the "Stock Injection Plan" that apparently was the prefered option amongst most economists and people in the know. My basic knowledge of it is that instead of just giving the 700 billion away and hopeing it works like in the Paulson plan the government AND taxpayers would give the 700 billion but would also be given a small portion of ownership in the bank. Somehow with this plan if it would fail the taxpayer would be that last to loose money. No big surpise the banks lobbied heavily against the plan.

To my knowledge the stock injection plan is in the bill that was passed as an "option" but I'm not holding my breath. I'm still trying to find a decent link that could describe the plan.

- MrConrads