Friday Night Videos -- Obama, Paladino, Carter, Buffett, O'Donnell, Lots More

This is my favorite of the group.

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• Carl Paladino Confronts Journalist -- 'I'll Take You Out, Buddy!'

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Video:  The presidential seal fell off President Barack Obama's podium and clattered to the stage as Obama delivered a speech to a women's conference Tuesday.  When he realized what happened, he quipped,

• "All of you know who I am."

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Video:  Christine O'Donnell's 90's MTV Anti-Masturbation Campaign

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Video:  Jimmy Carter with Brian Williams

"This country has become so polarized that it's almost astonishing.... Not only with the red and blue states... President Obama suffers from the most polarized situation in Washington that we have ever seen -- even maybe than the time of Abraham Lincoln and the initiation of the war between the states."

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Video:  Ecuador's President is tear-gassed by protestors

• Ecuador austerity (WSJ)

• Photo Slideshow

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Video:  Warren Buffett with Becky Quick

• Warren Buffett on Recession, Taxing the Rich, and Capitalism

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Video:  Warren Buffett part 2

• U.S. Capitalism More Important Than Government Stimulus

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Ray Suarez speaks with Wellesley College professor Susan Reverby about her discovery of how U.S. scientists did secret syphilis experiments on Guatemalans decades ago.

• Transcript

Between 1946 and 1948, researchers with the U.S. Public Health Service deliberately infected nearly 700 Guatemalans with syphilis, in most cases without their knowledge, in an effort to determine whether penicillin could prevent the disease.

The U.S. government apologized for the experiments on Friday. Wellesley College Professor Susan Reverby uncovered the documents while she was researching a book about another shameful chapter, the Tuskegee experiments.

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Video:  Google CEO -- Laws are written by lobbyists

"The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists" to protect incumbent interests, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Atlantic editor James Bennet at the Washington Ideas Forum. "It's shocking how the system actually works."

In a wide-ranging interview that spanned human nature, the future of machines, and how Google could have helped the stimulus, Schmidt said technology could "completely change the way government works."

"Washington is an incumbent protection machine," Schmidt said. "Technology is fundamentally disruptive." Mobile phones and personal technology, for example, could be used to record the bills that members of Congress actually read and then determine what stimulus funds were successfully spent.

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• Google's CEO: 'The Laws Are Written by Lobbyists'

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Let me know in comments if you like this brief, simple video round-up style, and if so I will start doing one of these every day with leftover, unpublished clips.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The former chief operating officer at the law firm run by convicted Ponzi scheme operator Scott Rothstein was sentenced Friday to the maximum 10 years in federal prison for her role in the $1.2 billion fraud.

But Debra Villegas, 43, will probably serve far less time because of her extensive cooperation with prosecutors, who said it was likely they would seek a sentence reduction later.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/08/debra-villegas-ponzi-sentenced-rothstein_n_756634.html

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/08/bank-of-america-halts-foreclosures_n_755737.html

Bank Of America Stops Foreclosures In All 50 States

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Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) met with top brass at Goldman Sachs at the Willard Hotel to discuss implementation of the Dodd-Frank financial reform. So what happened? We wish we could tell you. When The Examiner called the SEC to ask for comment or for any notes from the meeting, they said that they would not comment and could neither confirm nor deny a meeting with Goldman. “But we know it happened,” I told the press officer. “No comment.”

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/sec-meets-with-goldman-sachs-wall-street-ceos-behind-closed-doors-104489744.html#ixzz11qDAsS9y

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I surly hope that the daily bail will keep up hammering our worthless god dam politician and make there life so miserable that they cant wait to be thrown out of office, throw them all out and piss in there faces