Archive for January, 2010

Hitler Finds Out His Dog is Pregnant

Posted in Audio-Video, Humor, Television on January 25th, 2010 by Chip Gibbons

There are a growing number of “Hitler Finds Out” videos popping up on YouTube and other sites. They are based on footage from the German movie “Der Untergang” / Downfall (2004). People add subtitles to the same segment of the film creating their own story out of it. The original movie is in German.

I wrote the subtitles for Hitler Finds Out His Dog is Pregnant.

The director of the movie, Oliver Hirschbiegel, has gone on record about the clips. “Someone sends me the links every time there’s a new one. I think I’ve seen about 145 of them… Many times the lines are so funny, I laugh out loud, and I’m laughing about the scene that I staged myself! You couldn’t get a better compliment as a director.”

Government Hid Anti-Cancer Properties of Marijuana

Posted in Government/Politics, Health, Science on January 8th, 2010 by Chip Gibbons

This story sounds like it’s out of the Dark Ages. Once science gets married to religion or politics, it ceases to exist. This is yet another reason why I don’t want the government messing around in my health care, although it’s obviously already too late to stop that. They’ve been doing it for decades.

This article makes you wonder how many other possible cures they’ve suppressed.

From Alternet.org:

Most Americans don’t know anything about the Madrid discovery. Virtually no major U.S. newspapers carried the story, which ran only once on the AP and UPI news wires, on Feb. 29, 2000.

The ominous part is that this isn’t the first time scientists have discovered that THC shrinks tumors. In 1974 researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, who had been funded by the National Institute of Health to find evidence that marijuana damages the immune system, found instead that THC slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice — lung and breast cancer, and a virus-induced leukemia.

The DEA quickly shut down the Virginia study and all further cannabis/tumor research, according to Jack Herer, who reports on the events in his book, “The Emperor Wears No Clothes.” In 1976 President Gerald Ford put an end to all public cannabis research and granted exclusive research rights to major pharmaceutical companies, who set out — unsuccessfully — to develop synthetic forms of THC that would deliver all the medical benefits without the “high.”