Jake

I've gotten to study German cinema and it is surprising that almost 30 years passed before they're cultural products started to deal with the Nazi past. There's a reason: everyone was worthy of blame. A good movie, available on Netflix, called The Nasty Girl does an awesome job of dealing with this. Subtitled obviously, but a really great film that sheds some light on this stuff. Based on a true story too -- the real woman it is based on is not nearly as charming, I must tell you

Illinois is like a bad girlfriend. One day, you're riding high, they're giving you even more than you could have asked for. Next thing you know, they're getting f***ed by some lowlife.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jan 19, 2013 -> 06:48 PM) Lindstrom is good for 50 innings, so he and Crain should split the RH set up duties. The pen could use a long man to protect against usage because Danks, Quintana, and Sale all should be pulled quickly when it's apparent that they don't have it. lol you can't even say something nice without saying something negative!

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 19, 2013 -> 05:08 PM) I get that people who are part of the majority do not want to believe that it was just a regular guy who would become the one to flip the switch for the gas chambers, but that is the truth. Even Schindler, who was one of the best towards the Jews, only did it for money to start. He was using Jews from forced labor. It was only after he saw his "workers being murdered" that he got upset because he was losing a valuable commodity. Most humans accept speciesism. Whether its okay to kill a fly, a mouse, a chicken, whatever. Most people have a point where they think "its okay to kill that" or "its okay to test on that" or "its okay to work it to death." In Nazi Germany it became acceptable that Jews were less than Human. So normal human rights did not apply. They did not think they were doing anything wrong. If Germany would have won, would all of those poor unfortunate Germans have freed the Jews? Would they have stopped killing Jews? No. They wanted the Jews eradicated. It wasnt just Hitler or a handful of people. Germany wasn't the only place that was anti-Semitic. Opinion polls, even after the discovery of concentration camps in post-war Germany, in the USA people were rather strongly against allowing Jews to immigrate into the USA, refugees or otherwise. During the war, before the full breadth of extermination came to light, foreign Jewish immigrants were indisputably an unwelcome proposition. Would Americans have been pro-Holocaust? No, but unfortunately there was a pervasive atmosphere worldwide that allowed this sort of thing to be ignored. While I wouldn't want to say that bad government and genocide can't happen again in the Western world, it seems far less likely since it happened on such a large, public scale.

Good pickup at $3M or below per

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jan 19, 2013 -> 04:16 PM) Unfortunately though it's the tallest midget problem. He was the best of an awful group. Hopefully on the right side, he can be an average tackle. Right, he received a 0 rating from them. That means he avoided negatively impacting the offense. Though not every position's numbering works out this way, 0 put him right in the middle of the pack among tackles.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 19, 2013 -> 03:43 PM) I gotta feeling he's going to be there next year. Emery's own numbers that he presented in his post-lovie-firing press conference, seemed to support this. According to PFF, the source Emery quotes frequently, had Webb as our best overall OL

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 19, 2013 -> 01:50 PM) Just backing you up a bit However, the huge effort expended by this country during WW2 very well may be a large part why you and I are able to do just about everything we do in our everyday lives, and we need to always remember that. WW2 is really pretty fascinating and there are countless amounts of counter-factuals to be made. One of my favorites is the supposition that had Hitler not declared war on us, we would have let him run rampant in Europe as our gripe was with Japan. FDR wanted to get after Hitler from early on, but he never could get the government or the people behind it, even in the wake of Pearl Harbor.

Rape isn't bad, as a matter of fact it's something that the liberators of Nazi Germany employed with great frequency during their triumphant march for freedom.

I don't think Duke would turn his guns on me so I'm similarly unafraid of our military and government.

Beckham should improve next year. Hes getting to that age and actually did improve last year. Either way, he is worth this year's salary.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jan 19, 2013 -> 11:39 AM) Childish name calling, a symptom of wussification

I hate it when schools teach responsible gun ownership! Like, don't let kids even pretend they are running around with guns. Particularly, we don't point our guns at our friends. I had no problem following the same kind of rules at my grade schools and then letting my parents teach me how to use guns. Also, yes, it's a shame that women aren't home taking care of my babies. But mainly...why are we afraid of a government takeover? Do you realize who runs the government? Who populates the military? The only way to "take over" is to win a war of ideas. I'm dubious that a radical change in ideology is possible in the information age, but regardless at this point the way gun advocates talk about their guns just alienates people. It alienates me, who wants to own guns.

The team has and has always had good players on it. We have two all-star caliber starters plus another playing like the all-star he used to be. We also have two 2 guards that are better than any of the 3 on the team that lost to Miami in the playoffs.

DV 2013

Usually I laugh at how ND love blinds people. Now the ND hate does the same thing. Anyways, ESPN loses nothing when Deadspin reports this. People just watch every episode of Sportscenter to see what's going on.

I usually try to stream over d/l but the new stuff I usually can't find on streaming sites.

The team's good, folks.

WOW

Well, at least they gave us time for our last possession.

Belinelli got raped that entire possession.

Rondo fouls out. Very physical game.

Hinrich made a shot....lol

Garnett got away with murder a few times in this game. Looks like we're going to lose, but man this sucks to lose. We're better than them. Losing Lu certainly hurts, he'll probably be gone for a week or two at least with hamstring injury.

The hate is becoming so rabid that I'm feeling more and more for Manti. He's an amateur athlete, a Mormon kid, I'm going to stick with his story until I see better evidence. I don't blame him for sticking with the story after he became pretty sure something strange was going on. You have to go to the grave with that story until Deadspin or somebody comes out with the hoax. If he was hoaxed, all those formative experiences with teammates surrounding her "death" are still real. He was still devastated and his team/family still had to help him pull through. There are lots of questions to be answered, but I don't like jumping on a person who only has vague, circumstantial evidence surrounding him and is the ONLY person who has the potential to be victimized. If Te'o is not a victim, then nobody is. I hate ND, but I don't automatically hate this kid. I need more than him being dumb and not strong enough to explain to the media that he had an online only girlfriend that turned out to be a fake person. Anyway, back to reading and waiting for more facts and testimony to come out.