Spanish Police don’t fool around with this hostage-taking bank robber.

0:55 video

Can’t you just imagine the protests and lawsuits if this happened in New York?

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Hat tip to Anti-Idiotarian via Stop the ACLU via MacRanger.

Deep Purple’s Smoke on the Water reinterpreted in Japanese style:

4:32 video

Supporters at Obama Rally singing: “Yes we can”

Barack Obama has gained astonishing traction among voters simply by looking good and repeating in his mellifluous announcer’s voice a carefully-chosen litany of utterly and completely vacuous political mantras: Change, Hope, Move Beyond, which (everyone seems to fail to notice) commit Obama to absolutely nothing concrete and specific, and which (best of all) leave his opponents no policy position to attack.

In this downright scary, Obama 4:30 campaign music video, a collection of celebrity performers (including Jesse Dylan, Will.i.am, Common, Scarlett Johansson, Tatyana Ali, John Legend, Herbie Hancock, Kate Walsh, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Adam Rodriquez, Kelly Hu, Adam Rodriquez, Amber Valetta, Eric Balfour, Aisha Tyler, Nicole Scherzinger and Nick Cannon) have been turned into pod people who echo all the phrases of one of Obama’s speeches in song with the glazed eyes and reverential expressions of members of a religious cult.

Or worse.

As in Night of the Living Dead, you wonder if you might not have to shoot the zombies in the head before one of them bites you.

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Hat tips to Andrew Sullivan and Walter Olson.

Don’t you loathe politicians… all politicians?

This amusing 1:44 video mocks the whole gang of them as one after another invokes the phony baloney mantra of the 2008 primary campaign.

A sardonic animated comment (to the music of Steppenwolf) on the current plight of my generation by Walt Handlesman.

Hat tip to Michael Lawler.

Hillary and Obama really go after one another in this segment of the South Carolina debate.

7:36 video

Circulating in martial arts circles this morning are a pair of videos from Japanese television of an attempt by someone whose name I couldn’t catch trying to make his mark in the Guinness Book of Records in Tameshigiri, the cutting with a sword of makiwara (targets) made from tatami (rush floor mats) rolled around a bamboo shaft.

The particular feat being attempted is Senbongiri, 1000 cuts in as short a time as possible.

Introductory 8:24 video

1001 cuts in 36:06 7:28 video

In the year 2000, however, Russell McCartney of the Ishi Yama Ryu school of Seattle performed 1181 consecutive cuts without a miss in 1hr 25min: 5:45 video

M. Dominique Poirier, a regular reader from France, has produced a 7:31 video tribute to Never Yet Melted. D.H. Lawrence must be spinning in his modernist grave.

“That’s not the model of the Reagan coalition. That’s the model of the democratic party.”

1:21 video

Thompson comments on recent Straits of Hormuz Iranian harasssment of US ships:

0:21 video

Hat tip to Hot Air.

Chassids liking HD-TV. 0:55 video.

Misleadingly titled and afflicted with a vulgar opening, this parody of the recent Thermopylae epic still has its amusement value.

2:29 video

From a Marine Corps site: a music video tribute to the troops.