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This video was posted to YouTube on April 15 of this year. I learned of it from the Pharyngula thread about the extent to which Joseph Ratzinger covered up abuse cases in Germany when he was an archbishop there (1977-1982). Hat tip to matrexius for the PZ Myers link.

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The now-famous flight attendant is a commenter on Airliners.com, a "planespotter" website with a lot of regulars who work in the airline industry. He's posted there 31 times there, starting in 2008, under the handle Skyliner747"His most intense participation was in a [March 2010] thread called 'Carry-On Baggage Endangers Crew And Passengers,' a ( Read more... )

Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland, who's the grandson of former Canadian premier Tommy Douglas, this is an animation of a speech Douglas gave in the 1960s. The cartoon begins at 1:10 and ends at 6:25, if you want to skip Sutherland's somewhat preachy intro and afterword.

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(For the word "coalition" in Douglas' speech, substitute "bipartisanism.")

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