Charlie Rose

SharkswithfrikingLazers  02/09/2013 04:49 PM Report

Yes, football but that Super Bowl ad convinced me, I'm buying a farmer first chance I get.

The "God Made a Farmer" ad took a riskier route: earnestness. The two-minute ad features gorgeous still images from 10 noted photographers, including William Albert Allard, who has long documented the American Midwest; and Kurt Markus, who made his name with his depictions of cowboy life.

http://youtu.be/AMpZ0TGjbWE

An antiquated vision of American farm life that featured almost no Hispanics — though the latter made up nearly half of all hired farmworkers in 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-labor/background.aspx#demographic

This same ad "fixed" for the real American demographics:

http://youtu.be/cmiofDOQS7Y

Harvey's essay on the virtues of the American farmer, which he delivered to the Future Farmers of America back in 1978. It says:

"God said, 'I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board.' So God made a farmer."

FUNNY OR DIE'S VERSION:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/e1abab3c2b/god-made-a-factory-farmer?playlist=featured_videos

(All three are worthy of a rainbow of emotions.)

SharkswithfrikingLazers  02/01/2013 04:50 PM Report

Super Bowl Spore Repore by Stephen Colbere

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/423442/january-31-2013/sport-report---ads-for- ads---deer-antler-spray

Deer Antler Spray? What will be ingested next?

San Francisco Earthquakes vs. Baltimore Trash Can Fires

Teaser Ads that give us ads for the ads. Taco Bell--seeing that old man get hurt makes me crave some Mexican food or some Taco Bell. Mercedes--targeting their key demographic of 14 year old boys making $500K a year.

Ray Lewis--using deer antler spray when it was already banned when Lance Armstrong won as the first hooved bicycle racer. Trick of the Devil--always trust guys who are talking to the Devil.

Antlers are nature's helmets so head injuries solved.

NeilMacCallister  01/31/2013 01:51 AM Report

Didn't the SuperBowl already happen??? ..Didn't Knute Rockne win?

The Oscars are all done too, right??? ..Didn't Barbara Streisand win???

Who won the last election??? ..is the economy improving??? ..or is it still in its four-year mud slide???

Any new restaurants opening this week?????

How many Americans were murdered in our Embassies last month????

How many couch-potato potheads voted for Barack Obama while sitting unemployed and cheering "strong men" playing baseball in the World Series???

Does anyone give a damn anymore???

SharkswithfrikingLazers  01/29/2013 10:59 PM Report

The NFL promotes both socialism and cartels.

Kroft: I mean that's socialism, isn't it?

Goodell: It is a form of socialism. And it's worked quite well for us. So we try to combine socialism and capitalism. How can we socialize by sharing our revenue in a way that will allow every team the ability to compete?

It's not just socialism. The NFL is essentially a cartel, albeit a legal one, thanks to a limited exemption from anti-trust laws granted by Congress more than 50 years ago.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57367998/the-nfl-commissioner-roger-goodell/?pageNum=3&tag=cont entMain;contentBody

(Jon Stewart does a funny segment on it:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-may-29-2012/communist-central---obama-s-socialist-scheme)

Sorry, having anything to do with the Super Bowl would be like going to church on Sunday and participating in a Wiccan Goddess Healing Ritual.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  01/29/2013 10:32 PM Report

The Pittsburgh Steelers have won the most Super Bowls with six championships (record 6–2), while both the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers have five wins each (Cowboys 5–3; 49ers a perfect 5–0).

San Francisco is perfect.

Can you argue with perfection?

SharkswithfrikingLazers  01/29/2013 10:04 PM Report

The Super Bowl storyline beyond the Harbaughs?

Well it should be the use of drones to photograph who is sitting with whom.

This would keep our Justice Department busy and perhaps get quite a few crooks off the street including members of school boards, city councils, state legislatures, county commissioners, Wall Street regulators, police chiefs and on and on and on.

Perhaps, it is already planned?

(By the way, great program on Drones: http://video.pbs.org/video/2326108547/)

MisterMittster  01/29/2013 08:05 PM Report

Leave nothing to chance, mark my words, Harbaugh's team will win the Super Bowl, you can bet on it, I guarantee it.

Also, if you own McDonalds stock, Sell It. McDonalds stock is about to go down down down, and not likely to come back up again anytime soon. Because of the effects of many bad and irreversible investments (very poorly thought out remodeling and 'upgrading' efforts) coupled with business-negative and backwards management style intiatives that are alienating their customers and pushing business over to their competitors. Sell it. You'll be Glad.

REMant  01/29/2013 01:32 PM Report

The Ravens lost to RG3 and the Redskins, rho Flacco played badly. I don't think, however, that the QBs in this game will be as important as the defenses. Notwithstanding there does seem to be a trend towards speed and agility, which I think is why southern college teams have for so long topped their northern rivals, and similar to what has happened in basketball in recent years, I don't think the option will be with us for very long. The chances of the QBs getting terminated are far too high. RG3 may never return. Teams have turned to it mostly in desperation, but a decent offensive line is as necessary to its success as in any other scheme. That the '49ers threw down field so much means either they have a very good one, or, more likely, a very bad one. And I'd guess Kaepernick was put in precisely for this reason. I'm not sure either that coaches play cat-and-mouse or try all that much to run different plays off the same look as take what the other team gives them, look for bad match-ups, and then run plays at them until the defense stops them.