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The Truth Is Out There
Like everything on the internet, YouTube has some crap, and some great, funny and well done stuff. One recently viewed example is that all of the Super Bowl commercials are on YouTube, as well as lots of other clips of this and that, and even some other stuff. Whatever you want, even soft porn, and dumbass guys doing stupid things.
For a place to start, click on the tab at the top marked “Videos”, then on the menu selection for “Most Popular“.
I just watched one for “Japanese Train Loaders”. Guys who shove people into the trains before they close the doors.
Here is another example of why I like YouTube:
Reporters Blow Whistle on FOX News
The truth is out there. We just have to find it. And the internet makes that a bit easier. Stuff like this is why “they” are always warning us about the dangers of the internet. “Dangers” indeed — the truth always hurts. The people with an agenda hate that so many people have video cameras and cell phone cameras, and an internet connection.
As a historian, all I ever want to find is what really happened. Every time I get going on research on just about any subject, I soon learn that it is usually one person’s personal agenda that drives any particular event, throughout history. And everyone around them either agrees with that agenda, or goes along in the interest of avoiding confrontation, or keeping their job. Peel away the layers of history, and it’s always about money and power. “You will do what I want you to do, because I think it’s a good idea.”
Conservatives want to limit your choices to what they think is good and right. Liberals want to offer you so many choices that nothing gets done, because in life’s choices, nothing is easy.
The best we can ever hope to do is EDUCATE OURSELVES, make the decision and hope for the best. My favorite defense comes from Steve McQueen’s character in the movie The Magnificant Seven when he said, “It seemed like a good idea at the time.”
