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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Video by JMG reader Sean Chapin.
2011
(01:27 min.)
From: Anderson
Added: Jun 23, 2011
Description: Anderson answers, @myketv "Anderson, I remember watching you on Channel One news when I was in grade school. How did you get your start on that youth news program? Are you still in touch with co-anchor Lisa Ling?"Do you have a question you'd like to ask Anderson about his career? Go to http://www.andersoncooper.com
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y57_ulo-QoY
2007
(01:44 min.)
From: sherynroyce
Added: Jan 17, 2007
Description: clip
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V81tiOm-JSs&feature=related
2007
(00:55 min.)
From: PeterGay
Added: Apr 8, 2007
Description: This is a slide show about Anderson Cooper before his days at CNN.
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0VZuSSGG50&feature=related
I'm fairly sure I first posted this cartoon here a couple of years ago, but it's being passed around on Twitter today and feels just as true as when it was first published.
Im only going to predict the top 10 because this draft sucks (the jokes still on you, Cleveland) and there are only about 5 players that will be useful NBA starters. Of those players, maybe one will play in an All Star game.
1- Cleveland- Kyrie Irving- Done deal. He earned it, playing 8 fucking games all of last year
2- Minnesota- Derrick Williams- Experts call him a tweener. Did they watch the Duke game
3- Utah- Brandon Knight- 5 years from now he will be the best player in this draft
4- Cleveland- Enes Kanter- Biggest question mark in the draft
5- Toronto- Tristan Thompson- Gut feeling here, someone to replace Bosh in the post
6-Washington- Jonas Valanciunas. God bless you.
7- Sacramento- Kawahi Leonard- Tremendous upside, had to use the term at least once.
8- Detroit- Marcus Morris-These last three pics show how brutal this draft is.
9- Charlotte- Jan Vesely- Czech Republic
10- Milwaukee- Klay Thompson-Did I make that name up? You tell me.
The biggest drama of the night will be when the Utah Jazz pick at #12. Its gonna come down to either Kemba or Jimmer. We will see what those racist do, I guess. I know which one I'm picking in a pick up game.
The Bulls have 2 first round picks this year. I predict one goes to a European who won't be ready until 2013, and the other pick will be used to get a small forward like Kyle Singler or JaJuan Johnson.
So he threw a pool party to help get his mind off basketball....
....And by basketball, I mean Eva Longoria's ass.
June 23rd, 2011
08:17 AM ET
Nic Robertson: 'Taliban playing a long game'
How will U.S. troop withdrawal affect places like Kabul and Kandahar and what is the Taliban's long-term strategy?
CNN senior international correspondent talked with CNN's Anderson Cooper after President Obama's Afghanistan address:
COOPER: [In his address, Obama] said it's time "to focus on nation building here at home." ... Nation building is not officially what the U.S. says they're doing in Afghanistan, but really as part of this counterinsurgency strategy, nation building is what the United States has been doing in Afghanistan for years.
ROBERTSON: It has. If you look at where surges had the best successes, towns in Kandahar and some of the towns in Helmand, it's because there's been security and that's allowed to provide facilities for the mayor's office and for the provincial governor.
Things that they can't afford to do by themselves and get markets back up and running and provide security for street vendors to be able to come out to those markets. It's all these sorts of things that surge has provided for.
When you take that away and when you take those successes and security away, you are left with an environment that the Afghans cannot in many cases sustain themselves.
Kabul has been mostly a relative safe haven, but last week you have a multiple suicide bombing attempt there. You see where Taliban is already trying to impinge into areas where already good security is provided.
COOPER: Nic, you spent a lot of time in Afghanistan. ... How much do you think the Taliban is just waiting out the U.S. like they did with the Soviets and how many people are still on the fence in Afghanistan about whether or not they should side with the Karzai government, with the U.S. or with the Taliban?
ROBERTSON: For sure the Taliban are playing a long game. They always said you've got watches, but we've got the time. It sounds kind of funny, but it's not.
They are prepared to wait out U.S. forces and other NATO forces leaving the country. What they'll be doing is looking at where the drawdown happens and where they can take advantage of that.
If you look at what the Taliban have done during the surge, the surge has really pushed a lot of troops and focused on key provinces and sort of important cities and important highways on the south of the country - Kandahar, Helmand, those places.
But where the surge hasn't been as strong in the east or at all in the north, that's where we have seen the Taliban been able to make their stronger gains.
So they'll look at the situation and where they can have an easier fight and manipulate the population, and the population does sit on the fence because they're not going to put their necks on the line.
If they think the Taliban will come along and cut them off for siding with either the Afghan government or all coalition forces and it's not just strains and differences with the Taliban.
Plenty of people in the country don't like the central government for a variety of reasons. The Taliban will play of against that as well.
From a just-published interview with Steven Thrasher at the Village Voice:
You may recall that Sen. "Reverend" Diaz once grandiosely declared, "I am the the church AND the state."All right, let me ask you about this. You believe marriage is between one man and one woman, yes?
Yes [laughing] So? Why are you asking me this? You know that, you know what I believe. Why are you calling me? Marriage is between a man and a woman.
But you yourself have been married twice, and are divorced.
Yes. So?
So do you believe it is alright to be divorced?
No. Divorce is wrong. Gay marriage is wrong.
You think you are wrong, then?
When I got divorced, I was wrong, yes. Why are you asking me this?
But you believe that gay marriage is wrong and divorce is wrong, but that you should be allowed to get divorced and remarried, and gay people shouldn't be able to marry at all.
When I got divorced, it was wrong, but marriage is between a man and a woman.
So is being divorced OK with your religion?
No, it is not OK. Gay marriage is still wrong. This is what I believe.
