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Here’s some interesting video footage taken last month during a manta ray night dive off the Kona coast of Hawaii. The video shows a bottlenose dolphin, tied up in fishing line, “asking” a human diver for help.

The dolphin swam into the lighted areas where scuba dive instructors, among them Keller Laros, noticed fishing line was restricting the dolphin’s movement. (more…)

Randy Newman, the multi-award-winning composer and singer-songwriter has recorded a new song in reaction to the latest shenanigans of the Republican Party. “I’m Dreaming of a White President” is sung to the Christmas classic “White Christmas”.

The staff of You Think What understands and we appreciate many of the cleverly written farcical lyrics and melodies created by Newman in the past…tunes like, “The Great Nations of Europe”, or “You’ve Got A Friend In Me” from the “Toy Story” series of Disney/Pixar animated films.

Newman has joined some other popular composers like the Boss, Bruce Springsteen, or the iconic Bob Dylan, and equally prolific creator, Ry Cooder in putting pen to paper to express their political feelings…ridicule, mock, ludicrous, lampooning, being sardonic… (more…)

The YouThinkWhat staff wish to congratulate Gabrielle Douglas, and her family, upon achieving the titles Champion, Gold Medalist, Olympian. The Best!

As if all the time, energy, money, sweat, tears, injuries and sacrifices made by the 16 year-old athlete, and her family, to successfully train for this occasion isn’t enough, and apparently it’s not enough for some people,* and you know who you are.* There are, as always, “some” who are envious, “they” are finding fault, and talking about her hair. (more…)

*“Now tell the rube he reminds you of George Washington,
and you want to go up to show him our legislative agenda.”

ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, lobbies legislators in Washington, D.C. as well as your state’s legislators, to pass bills contrary to the best interests of you and your family. (more…)

We’ve been saying it all along. There is no housing shortage.

In the Depression of the 1930s there was so much surplus food it was dumped into the ocean rather than give it away to the millions who were starving.

In this current depression there are so many empty homes they, the banks, are letting them rot to the ground rather than give them as shelter to homeless persons, including children, even allowing them to pay whatever they can.
We seem to prefer waste to helping each other.

There is no excuse!

We hear all the time about the resilience of the American people; our We Can Do It attitude. We all know when the government wants to do a project, where there’$ a will there’$ plenty of funding for the project to prevail. (more…)

Chronic kidney disease is the silent killer of millions of black people across the United States. In Washington, D.C. 18 patients a day lose their lives while waiting for transplants.

According to medical experts there are more people living with kidney disease because dialysis treatment sustains a greater number of lives than ever before.
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Another pop culture icon has returned from the dead to appear in a wildly popular YouTube video. Mister Rogers has a remixed video by Symphony of Science’s John Boswell for PBS Digital Studios.

We’re talking about the same Mister Rogers, Fred Rogers, the man who was an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church,  an American educator, songwriter, author, and television host. The Boswell/Rogers collaboration is following on the heels of the successful  holographic image concert of Tupac Shakur. (more…)

Folklore tells why the news of freedom took so long to arrive. There were no instantaneous electronic or digital communications in 1862. No Twitter, or Internet, email or blogs! There was no teevee or radio; there were some newspapers, or fliers, for the few people who were able to read. (more…)

You Think What proudly presents a series of remembrances of a television news director’s career. Max A. Schindler worked for the NBC News Bureau in Washington, D.C. for many years. In this second article he describes directing news coverage of a gathering of mostly black civil rights activists in the nation’s capital. This time Max tells the reader what it was like to be present while capturing the televised images of a truly American historic event.

View From The Control Room Segment#2
by Max A. Schindler
The March on Washington

August 28, 1963

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a large rally in support of equal rights for African Americans.  There were somewhere between 200,000 to 300,000 people who participated.  Approximately 75 to 80 percent were African Americans…the rest were white and other minorities.  It was estimated over 500 cameramen, technicians and correspondents were there to cover this event for the networks and news media.  I was there with my crew to cover the major speeches at the Lincoln Memorial.  Other crews were in various locations all over the grounds at the Washington Monument, where the march was to begin, and along the mall in between the two memorials.

The leaders of the march were A. Philip Randolph, James Farmer, John Lewis, Martin Luther King, Jr., Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young.  The event included musical performances by Marion Anderson, Joan Baez, Mahalia Jackson; Peter, Paul and Mary and Josh White.  Charlton Heston representing many artists…Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando, Ossie Davis, Sammy Davis, Jr., Diahann Carroll, Lena Horne, Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier…gave a speech on behalf of all of them.

The speech that will be long remembered, though, is the famous “I Have A Dream” speech by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  (more…)

You Think What proudly presents a series of remembrances of a television news director’s career. Max A. Schindler worked for the NBC News Bureau in Washington, D.C. for many years. In this first article he describes directing news coverage following the Kennedy assassination; what it was like to be present while capturing the televised images of JFK’s coffin being removed from Air Force One upon its arrival at Andrews Air Force Base. How he felt as an eyewitness to history on that mournful November day in 1963  for all Americans, and people around the world.

View From The Control Room Segment#1

by Max A. Schindler

November 22, 1963

I was in my car on my way to work, about 4 or 5 blocks from the NBC News Bureau in Washington, DC. . At a red light a woman in the car next to me was screaming…I rolled down my window and she said “Turn on your radio”.  I turned on the radio and heard that President John Kennedy and Governor John Connally had been shot in Dallas, Texas.  I drove to the bureau and raced into the newsroom. It was chaotic and people were running around…many were not sure of what to do. The bureau chief told me to have my wife pack a bag, for an untold number of days, and to send it by cab. A plane had been chartered to take a group of us to Dallas for the coverage. Before my bag arrived we heard the special news bulletin  the President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was dead. (more…)