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The Fountainhead - Howard Roark Speech (Ayn Rand) Posted by: Sidewinder77
Video duration: 353 seconds From The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Gary Cooper as Howard Roark delivers the memorable courtroom speech in self-defense for dynamiting Courtland. Related: ayn, capitalism, collectivism, cooper, fountainhead, gary, individualism, rand, self-ownership Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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Myth: Gun Control Reduces Crime Posted by: Sidewinder77
Video duration: 271 seconds From ABC 20/20 Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity with John Stossel, Myth #10 Gun Control Reduces Crime Download this video at DivX Stage6: http://stage6.divx.c om/user/Sidewinder77 /video/1729445/Myth: -Gun-Control-Reduces -Crime Related: columbine, control, crime, defense, gun, handgun, john, laws, legislation, palmer, self, stossel, tech, tom, virginia Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment Latest comments made on this video:
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Myth: Corn Ethanol is Great Posted by: Sidewinder77
Video duration: 284 seconds From ABC 20/20 Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity with John Stossel, Myth #1 Ethanol is Great Download this video from DivX Stage6 here: http://stage6.divx.c om/user/Sidewinder77 /video/1729477/Myth: -Corn-Ethanol-is-Gre at Related: adm, corn, deforestation, energy, ethanol, farmland, fertilizer, global, jerry, john, myth, oil, pesticides, stossel, taylor, warming Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment Latest comments made on this video:
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ABC 20/20 Freeloaders - Creating Dependency Segment Posted by: Sidewinder77
Video duration: 474 seconds John Stossel examines homelessness in America. Should we help the homeless or are we creating a culture of dependency that makes it difficult for people to improve their lives? Related: 2020, abc, classroom, freeloaders, homeless, homelessness, in, john, stossel, the Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment Latest comments made on this video:
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Michael Crichton on Environmentalism as a Religion Posted by: Sidewinder77
Video duration: 261 seconds Michael Crichton on Environmentalism as a Religion Related: crichton, environmentalism, michael, religion Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment Latest comments made on this video:
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The 4 Ways to Spend Money by Milton Friedman Posted by: Sidewinder77
Video duration: 195 seconds 1. You spend your own money on yourself. 2. You spend your own money on someone else. 3. You spend someone else's money on yourself. 4. You spend someone else's money on someone else. Sorry for the horrible quality on this one. The original source was a low quality .rm file from http://freetochoose. net/media.html Related: capitalism, education, freedom, friedman, government, lunch, milton, money, prices, public, schools Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment Latest comments made on this video:
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Penn and Teller - The FCC Posted by: Sidewinder77
Video duration: 86 seconds Penn discusses the FCC on the Profanity episode in season 2 of Bullshit! He brings up the Thomas Jefferson quote that "A government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have...The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." Related: bullshit, censorship, fcc, free, freedom, jefferson, libertarian, liberty, penn, profanity, speech, swearing, teller, thomas Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment Latest comments made on this video:
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2.7 - Chile (Commanding Heights Sample) Posted by: Sidewinder77
Video duration: 525 seconds Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy What Chicago stood for Cutting the tail off the inflation dog Growth at a high human price A tainted legacy Watch all of Commanding Heights at PBS.org http://www.pbs.or g/wgbh/commandinghei ghts/hi/story/index. html Related: capitalism, chile, commanding, communism, controls, economics, free, heights, inequality, markets, price Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment Latest comments made on this video:
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By: BlackProteus. on 22 Nov 08, 00:45:43
deinse81 - "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for instance - if a majority voted against them, they could be wiped out. In the US, that's not the case" You are wrong. The USA is representative democracy, and so the leaders can change the laws in a way that deprives people of liberty -- all perfectly within the bounds of your system. For example, the Prohibition of alcohol. Your Constitution is not an example of perfection, but can be influenced badly even within its own logic.
By: BlackProteus. on 22 Nov 08, 00:38:38
deinse81 - For the third time: democracy and republicanism are not mutually exclusive. The USA, where people vote in their leaders, is by that fact a democracy. The republicanism of the Founding Fathers, by your definition, suggests that they were against referendums. That does not make the USA something drastically different from a democracy.
By: deinse81. on 21 Nov 08, 04:35:27
That definition does not completely describe what the United States is: there are certain limitations on this government, that a democracy does not have: a democracy doesn't have to respect the individuals' rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for instance - if a majority voted against them, they could be wiped out. In the US, that's not the case, and there are many other limitations.(on the military for instance, which can only be used in self defense)
By: deinse81. on 21 Nov 08, 04:29:31
But of course the United States is not a democracy. The US is, in theory, a republic: in theory, its citizens cannot vote on a law, if that law contradicts the letter or principles of the Constitution, nor can the elected officials go against those principles.
By: rjbonacolta. on 21 Nov 08, 02:26:30
In Political Science, the only thing you need for a democracy, are free elections where any eleigbale citizen can vote, either on a law or for office holders see Putnam's Bowling Alone or Democracies in Flux
By: ipx4. on 20 Nov 08, 23:27:03
"Je voterais volontiers une loi qui permette de pendre une douzaine de banquiers par an". Jonathan Swift
By: ak47taufi. on 19 Nov 08, 18:58:09
the whole movie is pretty fast with the plot, at least first time I saw the movie after reading the book, but I enjoy watching some parts of the movie once in a while "build it as a monument to that spirit which is yours and could have been mine"..
By: KentLansing. on 19 Nov 08, 09:53:47
heAR! heAR!
By: Dionysius779. on 18 Nov 08, 22:20:11
This is certainly not how I imagined this while I was reading the book. He speaks too quickly and does not put enough emphasis on his words. They should remake it.
By: BlackProteus. on 16 Nov 08, 19:11:34
There's no difference between your republicanism and democracy. The only thing I can see that counts differently is that you seem to be against any form of referendum. A very small distinction.
By: BlackProteus. on 16 Nov 08, 19:08:58
Thanks for addressing my questions seriously. I don't want my message about Americans and the FFs to be lost: many Americans are blinded by devotion to the FFs, and fail to evaluate them objectively because they are full of nationalist feeling. You see evidence of this in the recurring argument from authority: "The FFs said X, so X is true." I encounter it all the time. It's a fallacy. They were just men. They were capable of error, and they sometimes did err.
By: BlackProteus. on 16 Nov 08, 19:04:34
"But by the proper, scientific classification we are not a democracy." There is no "scientific classification" of state structures. These are social structures we are talking about.
By: BlackProteus. on 16 Nov 08, 19:03:12
"As I said before, a republic is a nation in which the common people vote for representatives that handle the affairs of government for them." This is not inconsistent with the definition of democracy. You seem to think they are mutually exclusive. They aren't. Some republics aren't democratic, and some are. A republic can be a great variety of things. The American definition is merely one. I'd say the Roman preceded the US's version.
By: someguywithanaccount. on 16 Nov 08, 01:07:54
And no, I don't advocate fascism, in which military and party authority reigns supreme over its subjects. That is very different from republicanism, in which the will of the people is translated through popular election, though limited in its capacity to render unto the people everything that they ask for. In a republic, the voters don't vote for laws. They vote for the people that vote for laws, thus creating a bridge between the law and the will of the mob.
By: someguywithanaccount. on 16 Nov 08, 00:32:33
Clowning with others does please me, which is why I was talking with someone else. You just happened upon the conversation, which is fine. How says that metaphor cannot be mockery? If I said "Jim Bob's house is a pig sty," is that not both metaphor and mockery? For you to say we have an addiction to the FF's, as if it were a drug or bad habit, is to mock the very motive that conservatives have for wanting to preserve our Constitution. I don't appreciate it. But we can just agree to disagree
By: someguywithanaccount. on 16 Nov 08, 00:12:21
I have already said that the 'popular' definition places the US and other nations in the category of 'democracy.' But by the proper, scientific classification we are not a democracy. Pure and simple. If you want to say it is a democracy, by all means go ahead. That's fine. I use the same word to describe us all the time. Just realize that according to the textbook terminology, we are not a democracy.
By: someguywithanaccount. on 16 Nov 08, 00:07:49
As I said before, a republic is a nation in which the common people vote for representatives that handle the affairs of government for them. In America we vote for congressmen and the president. In the UK they vote for Parliament. By this, the common people do not decide bills and laws, regulate trade, or collect taxes. They elect politicians to do that for them. This is a 'republican' system. A 'democracy' is a nation in which common people decide on laws and policy themselves, directly.
By: BlackProteus. on 15 Nov 08, 23:15:11
"I can tell you that I don't advocate democracy, but republicanism." Here is where I genuinely wonder if you advocate fascism. Because to hate democracy, but favour republicanism means, I suppose, you don't want everyone to have the vote, or that you prefer power to be in the hands of some elite. "Republic" is by far the more vague term. The USSR was a republic; so was fascist Italy, Cuba under Castro, Iraq under Saddam Hussein. If you hate those regimes, then what really are you talking about?
By: BlackProteus. on 15 Nov 08, 23:10:35
someguy, My point is that just because the FFs didn't call the US a democracy doesn't matter - it could still be one. They don't use the words "nation-state" in their writings, yet the US is a nation-state. It's fallacious to say that only things they wrote can define what the US has, in fact, become. Second point: let's define democracy. The OED says it is "government by the whole population, usu. through elected representatives." By that definition, the US is a democracy.
By: BlackProteus. on 15 Nov 08, 22:47:45
someguy, I'm not here to have an immature flame-war. Deal with that or stop talking to me. (And saying you are addicted to the FFs is not mockery, but metaphor.) My ideas can stand up to argument, I hope; if they can't, then I will grow by learning that they can't. But mockery is moot because it does not actually engage in the ideas. It is merely ad hominem attack. I have no interest in that. There are plenty of people who do, so go find one to clown around with if that pleases you.
By: two50r. on 14 Nov 08, 13:47:59
Yes, a mockery he makes. Another sad example of someone treating themselves badly. The good news is ignorance is curable. "Trust, but verify" has now evolved into "Distrust, until verifiably trustworthy"
By: two50r. on 14 Nov 08, 13:43:14
Please explain how Freedom and Liberty "evolve". Furthermore, define your idea of what a "modern democracy" encapsulates. If stumped on how to respond, ask your mommy or daddy for help; usually, one who bleats "who cares" and blah, blah, blah in reference to one of the greatest documents ever created (11 years to create) is announcing their underage status or intellectual ignorance in addition to exhibiting signs of extreme low self-esteem. Everything ok in your world?
By: BeanGene. on 13 Nov 08, 21:01:21
HA! HA! Your discourse is the ultimate in double-think drivel. To state a discussion about the men who authored the foundational documents for a system of government is a weak authoritative argument; just to turn & announce its a modern democracy, like it or not! You to make a mockery of yourself! Sorry to say, a bold assertion - is not reality. Rule of the majority is not a hip modern advancement, its old and tyrannical. "Democracy is the WORSHIP of Jackals by Jackasses" -H L Mencken
By: BeanGene. on 13 Nov 08, 19:49:55
Not to open myself up to the boring agruements based on popular miseducation. But, I is naive to think the sub-prime was the result of a pure free market. There is NO free market, everything is managed & manipulated. Government policies like Gov. Sponsored Enterprise(GSE) such as Fannie/Freddie. 1977 Community Reinvestment Act, amd 1997; 1975 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), expanded in 1991; Artifically low Fed int. rate. Managed "securitized" markets & bailout rewards. Hardly free market.
By: someguywithanaccount. on 13 Nov 08, 02:11:09
Ouch. If your ideas can't hold up to humor and brevity then what does that say about your resolve? Jokes alone cannot prove you right or wrong. You just mocked my 'addiction to using the Founding Fathers,' but you won't hear me complain about the mocking because I know I can stand up to it. Can you?