Having the 13th installment of this series on Friday the 13th might just be pressing my luck. That and taking a week away gives me a larger number of videos to feature. Maybe I’ll feature 13? You’ll just have to see.
Let’s start with the inspirational. Earlier this week we celebrated two holidays of sorts. On Monday Germans (and others around the world) celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Just think, kids who are entering college now have no memory of a time when the Germans were separated (and few would remember there being both an East Germany and West Germany aside from reading that in history books.)
On Wednesday, Americans paused to remember our nation’s veterans. This is a short but fitting tribute from a group who actually supports the military.
Speaking of Republicans, I wanted to showcase their big health care shindig by what was really said instead of some sign a non-affiliated group chose to display. Here are two of the speakers who happen to be two of my favorite members of Congress: Michele Bachmann and Mike Pence.
While I’m busy getting the lefties all pissed off, why not add Rep. Joe “you lie” Wilson to the mix? He says passing Obamacare will cost 1.6 million jobs, and I don’t think he’s lying.
Then we have a number of other perspectives – I presume this is the trailer and teaser for a longer series of videos.
But this may be the mother of all protest films. Who knows, I may have a cameo in this one since I was there.
The hat tip for that goes to Bob McCarty. Guess I owe him for not using one of his videos this week.
Shifting gears, the health care debate may be over for the moment but the thug politics continues on – at least if you believe this account.
This one is a little different and focuses on education, or the lack thereof. In some respects, the thug politics is played out on a slightly different field.
Lastly, I chose this video simply because it’s Friday the 13th – but it has a good message.
Sorry, just 10 videos this week. But as always this was fun to put together and next week promises to be just as entertaining. (Just fewer health care items, probably.)
It’s spooky to mention though that if you add up all the running times, the videos go 31:13. Cue the Twilight Zone music and out…
