Duck-Billed Catechist

Amazing that such naive belief still finds its roots in America. Hitler and his minions would have used Pastor Arnold's intestines to grease their tank treads.

Not sof far fetched...they made lampshades out of the skin of Jews.

Ah, here we go...

http://original.antiwar.com/eric-stoner/2009/12/18/a-lesson-on-nonviolence-for-obama/

Victories Against Hitler

 

Contrary to Obama’s speech and the dominant narrative about World War II, nonviolent movements in several different European countries were also remarkably successful in thwarting the Nazis.

 

In 1943, for instance, when the order finally came to round up the nearly 8,000 Jews in Denmark, Danes spontaneously hid them in their homes, hospitals, and other public institutions over the span of one night. Then, at great personal risk to those involved, a secret network of fishing vessels successfully ferried almost their entire Jewish population to neutral Sweden. The Nazis captured only 481 Jews, and thanks to continued Danish pressure, nearly 90% of those deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp survived the war.

 

In Bulgaria, important leaders of the Orthodox Church, along with farmers in the northern stretches of the country, threatened to lie across railroad tracks to prevent Jews from being deported. This popular pressure emboldened the Bulgarian parliament to resist the Nazis, who eventually rescinded the deportation order, saving almost all of the country’s 48,000 Jews.

 

Even in Norway, where Obama accepted the peace prize, there was significant nonviolent resistance during the Second World War. When the Nazi-appointed Prime Minister Vidkun Quisling ordered teachers to teach fascism, an estimated 10,000 of the country’s 12,000 teachers refused. A campaign of intimidation — which included sending over 1,000 male teachers to jails, concentration camps, and forced labor camps north of the Arctic Circle — failed to break the will of the teachers and sparked growing resentment throughout the country. After eight months, Quisling backed down and the teachers came home victorious.]

"...suppose, young man, that one Marine had with him a tiny capsule containing a seed of ice-nine, a new way for the atoms of water to stack and lock, to freeze. If that Marine threw that seed into the nearest puddle...?"

"The puddle would freeze?" I guessed.

"And all the muck around the puddle?"

"It would freeze?"

"And all the puddles in the frozen muck?"

"They would freeze?"

"And the pools and the streams in the frozen muck?"

"They would freeze?"

"You bet they would !" He cried. "And the United States Marines would rise from the swamp and march on!"

I heard a review of her new album on NPR. The clips sounded pretty good.

Oakland signed Ben Sheets for how much, exactly?

http://www.latimes.com/sports/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-bba-athletics-sheets,0,7592371.story

Gary Matthews Jr to the Mets

(and caliber will be glad to see the headline uses his last name correctly)

I was going to say "Oh, the Angels have been trying to unload his contract for along time," but then I saw that they are reportedly paying 90% of his salary for the next two years!

How could she resist?

A google search suggests they went on two dates. She left early on the second one. No explicit reporting of schtuppage that I saw.

To stop any and every bill from passing the Senate, obviously.

Felix Hernandez is reportedly close to signing an extension.

I voted. In another video there's some mustachioed guy lip-synching his wife's narration. It's quite jarring.

If you had your own boat line like Marcus Garvey you wouldn't have to enter all of these travel contests.

I'm pretty sure they still get to choose who to spend their money on.

They're going to extend Josh Johnson, no?

Bumped for 2009.

http://hypem.com/zeitgeist/2009/albums

I think the 2008 albums are still up as well.

I'm sure he'd find some way to cope if they moved his show a half hour back and still paid him millions of dollars.

He can still film the show at the same time. It'd be a big deal to his staff if they cancelled the show, though I would guess that most of them would land on their feet.

What did he say that would constitute perjury?

He said he wasn't doing it for strength and it didn't help him hit homeruns. Heh.

Here is the full scoop:

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=9533663

What does it have to do with integrity? TV is a competitive business. What is it that he owes Conan?

I like Conan tons more than Jay, but it's hard for me to get worked up about show that I never watch.

So Jim Mora got fired. And...

Woah!

Alomar missed it by a handful of votes in his first year. He'll get in next year--no problem.

Let's not get too bent out of shape.

The spitting incident may keep Alomar out of the HOF? That is one magic loogie.

I doubt it. Just not first ballot.

Hmm. His numbers were pretty much the same for every team he played on post-Mets. It's quite possible that he just got old.

Or got off the juice.

Could McGwire hit the ball out of the infield at his current weight?

It could be that all of the "I want to come back to the Red Sox" talk in the last week was all an act to spark an interest in the Mets to lock it up.

Yes, exactly. Those leaks to the media are often strategic and yet fans think they have the full story by synthesizing the various, often contradictory, reports.

Through all that hullabaloo, A-Rod got a raise and extension with the team he apparently wanted to be with. He opted out his contract, yet still comes across as having some virtue (in sticking with his team) while holding the villain Boras at arm's length. Yes, it's possible that the media reports about having a falling out are true, but it seems equally as likely to me that it's just theater.

One of the strangest offseason moves I can remember.

 

Bay gets a nice offer from both the Mets and Red Sox and declines both.

Then news comes out last week that he wants to sign with the Sox.

Reports say that he is "lukewarm" on signing with the Mets.

Then he ends up signing with the Mets. Edit: So much for wanting to play close to home.

 

I think he wanted to sign and stay with the Sox, but Bozo Bore Ass fucked it up for him.

Then no one really was interested in him really. Thus sparking that old flame for Boston "take me back."

$6 million more than the Sox offered him, but for a 4th place team. I have nothing against the Mets, but I'd hate to be a fan because it's been a pretty disappointing decade for them.

 

Will that other New York team sweep in and take Matt Holliday off the rack? We'll soon find out.

 

Edit: It's also interesting to note that the Red Sox also made a nice offer to Matt Holliday ($16.5 for 5 years) during the Winter Meetings. It wasn't reported until after. I'm not sure which offer came first.

 

I'm not one of those Red Sox fans who expect every player to come and play here on the drop of a dime or million.

But I really have to wonder if Matt can do better (in terms of money and a great team) in this wintry economic climate.

I really doubt that Boras does anything that his clients don't want him to do. $6 million is $6 million.

Oh hey, and you used the asterisk and whatnot.

 

 

http://www.zazzle.com/viachicagostore*

 

 

It really adds up! Thanks, everybody!

Is there any way to remove it from the store sans asterisk so that the only way to buy it is through the asterisk url?

Obama didn't campaign on too many gay tights issues.

See in my opinion it's isane to feel that a gay tights issue like dnt ask dnt tell affects the lives of soilders with more harm than a pointless unjust perpetual fundamentalist warhawk WAR