July, 2011

The commercial alone seems pretty effective.

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President Barack Obama | Transcript

House Speaker John Boehner | Transcript

Heh. Big Boehner (bottom right).

Both made using Wordle.

Filmdrunk video editor Oliver Noble’s latest supercut is a little bit of a cross between 40 Inspirational Movie Speeches in Two Minutes and Rich from FourFour’s Mirror Scare Supercut, which makes it kind of a supercut of supercuts, which just freaks me out for some reason.

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6 Insane Holidays You’ll Wish You Celebrated – [Cracked]

15 Places You Can No Longer Go As An Adult – [BuzzFeed]

10 Living Oscar Winners Who’ve Since Made At Least 5 Straight Rotten Films – [Uproxx]

Roger Goodell: “Football Is Back” – [ESPN]

After months of public nastiness and private negotiations, of court filings and rulings, of players and owners squabbling over more than $9 billion a year, NFL fans finally saw the handshake and heard the words they awaited: “Football’s back.”

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and NFL Players Association head DeMaurice Smith both used that phrase while standing shoulder to shoulder Monday, announcing their agreement on a 10-year deal to end the lockout that began in March.

Black Student With Highest GPA Not Allowed To Be Valedictorian - [Courthouse News]

A high school southeast of Little Rock would not let a black student be valedictorian though she had the highest grade-point average, and wouldn’t let her mom speak to the school board about it until graduation had passed, the graduate claims in Federal Court.
Kymberly Wimberly, 18, got only a single B in her 4 years at McGehee Secondary School, and loaded up on Honors and Advanced Placement classes. She had the highest G.P.A. and says the school’s refusal to let her be sole valedictorian was part of a pattern of discrimination against black students.

Wimberly says that despite earning the highest G.P.A. of the Class of 2011, and being informed of it by a school counselor, “school administrators and personnel treated two other white students as heir[s] apparent to the valedictorian and salutatorian spots.”

Tragedy In Norway (Photos) – [In Focus]

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Turns out the duel is just a vote, and not the swashbuckling, great-smelling brawl to the death we were looking for.

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Australian footballer Andrew Walker gets a boost from Essendon rookie Jake Carlisle to pull off one of the greatest catches in the sport’s history.

Via | Thanks Scott.

Either way, the saddest part is you’re at a McDonald’s hanging out on your computer.

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The instructional video for the Master Moves Spider-Man Training Studio gets an uncomfortable edit by JDobbsRosa.

Also: Doc knocker!

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Old Old Spice guy Isaiah Mustafa gladly accepts new Old Spice guy Fabio’s challenge to a duel.

The duel is on for tomorrow at 9am PST/ 12pm EST.

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