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Don't front Ripper, you really are black! A couple years ago someone posted a picture of you and I was like cool, he's got the same blue adidas shirt I had in the eighth grade (no, that's not an insult).

Anyone else hear about the woman who jumped out of her car's sun roof because she thought the Rapture was upon us?

Now you know how Spider-Man fans feel. We've had every dead character except Uncle Ben come back to life, and I'm not totally confident he'll stay dead either!

A lot of Christian bands are emo, I heard my share of it at the local Christian rock club, which was pretty cool because they had cheap snacks and free pool. Me and a friend almost got thrown out one time for gambling on pool games. Memories...

The problem I have with the show is that they try too hard to act metal, not to mention the fact that they're all nu-metal bands. Where's all the guys with long hair and jean jackets with Motörhead patches on 'em drinking beer? Guess I need to get out of the eighties.

It took me 17 weeks but I'm finally convinced that Pittsburgh can win the Super Bowl. The Eagles should make it out of the NFC, but there are four teams in the AFC that deserve to be in the Super Bowl more than Philly (Pittsburgh, New England, Colts, Chargers).

I probably watched that game, but I've seen so many bowl games in the past they kind of blur together after a while.

What a horrible game. What's the record for biggest margin of victory in a national championship game?

IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE PRIDE SHOW DON'T READ THIS: Quick thoughts on each match: Leko vs. Minowa: Leko definitely needs to go back to K-1. It would be a benefit to all concerned; K-1 would get another A class HW, and Leko could redeem himself for his poor performances of late. Choi vs. Silva: Silva should stick to pro wrestling. Gracie vs. Anjo: Gracie has beaten nobody yet continues to act like he is a major player in the MW/HW scene. Gracie vs. Chonan would be good. Chonan vs. Silva: Damn, Chonan was impressive. He frustrated one of the top middleweight fighters in the world and to top it off, applied one of the slickest submissions this side of Rumina Sato. Big things in this guy's future. Takimoto vs. Sentoryu: Wasn't shown on PPV. Gardner vs. Yoshida: Boring fight, but Yoshida lost so I'm happy Gardner would get murdered by Fedor or Cro Cop, though. Cro Cop vs. Randleman: Either Cro Cop's improved his subs or Randleman's sub defense is just as bad as ever. My guess is it's the latter. Hendo vs. Kondo: Dan looked worn out the entire fight, but like always he turned it up towards the end. One of those fights that looked good on paper, but failed to impress in actuality. I think Pride needs to bring back the overtime round for instances like this where the regulation is too close to call. Gomi vs. Pulver: Gomi beats Jens at his own game and looks damn good at the same time. Gomi should fight Kawajiri, but since he gets no respect, I guess a rematch with Hansen is in order. Hunt vs. Silva: Silva has a monster set of balls on him for fighting a big guy like Hunt in three days notice and not being afraid to stand and trade with him. All those haters that think Silva has a poor chin need to watch this match and suck a fat one, cuz Silva took some monster shots from Mark. Don't really have a big problem with the decision, as I think it could have gone either way. Fedor vs. Nog: I've said it before and I'll say it again: I can see no one right now that would pose a problem for Fedor. He just has the instincts and natural talent, he knows exactly what to do and when to do it. A match with Cro Cop is in his future, and I see Fedor coming out on top in that one. I think he could take Cro Cop down at will, yes at will, and ground and pound his way to victory. Pretty good show, though it failed to deliver on an overall scale, it was still worth the dough.

I resort to the old "throw garbage at the offending driver" trick, as well as brake checking people riding my ass and speeding up when someone tries to pass me on a one lane road, of course only if they were on my ass.

Have you ever seen Silva's fight with Bob Schrijber? Bob has probably got better taked down defense than Mark, considering Mark only has two MMA fights and Bob has more than 40, but the question is whether Silva would want to stand and trade with Mark or not. But hey, Silva's surprised us on more than one occasion, so maybe he can pull another one out.

It's got Don Frye in it, but then Chyna is in it too. Do I like Don Frye more than I hate Chyna? No.

So why? Why, what? So why haven't you been banned yet?

If the subject really interests you, I'd recommend reading Alan Clark's "Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict 1941-1945." Excellent book. Also Albert Seaton's "Russo German War, 1941-45", another great read.

Okay, maybe if it was JUST Germany against JUST Russia, then maybe the Germans could have pulled out the victory. The simple truth is that the German offensive failed in Octrober, before the Russian winter even set in. They would have most likely captured Moscow if they would have ignored Leningrad and the Ukraine and concentrated all or most of their forces on capturing the capital of Communism, but that would have still left the lingering question of what to do with the millions of Russian soldiers still alive and fighting. Stalin had disassembled a large number of his factories in the autumn and reassembled them hundreds of miles away near the Ural Mountains and began producing massive amounts of weapons, ammunition, tanks, planes, and other military supplies. The Russians even developed the T-34, which was the most formidable tank of WWII and was better than the Germans' Mark III Panzers in head to head battles. Even if the Russians had started at the earliest possible time, around March, when they could have taken advantage of the good campaigning weather, they still wouldn't have totally conquered Russia by December; when the cold weather started setting in, Stalin started receiving reinforcements in the form of well-trained and well-disciplined soldiers from Siberia, and most important of all, when Germany declared war on the United States, afterwhich the U.S. began sending all sorts of aid to the Russian army. For instance, instead of having horses and panje wagons to haul ammunition and other supplies like the Germans did, the Russians could now use American trucks and jeeps to reliably haul all of their supplies. Because, not only were German tanks breaking down from the cold, they had no fuel to start them with even if they weren't broken down. In conclusion, if Germany would have started in March they still wouldn't have completely conquered Russia by the time the winter set in, and the Russians would have still beat them knowing the circumstances then surrounding the two countries. Now if Russia had weather like Hawaii then they would have most likely lost, but they don't, and Russia as we know it today has never been conquered because they possess the space, numbers, and weather to never let their country be conquered by outside forces.

Silva vs. Hunt is all but confirmed now; check this out:

Oh la-di-da, you've read *gasp* a thousand pages on the issue. Its impossible to say what would've happened, but by all intents and purposes, Germany had the momentum that coincided with Stalin's lack of preperation would've yielded positive results had the Nazis not been slowed down by the cold weather. Their first 6 months in Russia was dominant, so much so that even Stalin holed himself up and refused to appear publicly out of shame. By October, or November by Russia's calender, he made his first official statement to rally the Russian population to rise up. That certainly helped, but his big statement was at their same time the roads got muddier, the tanks started to break down because of the cold, supplies were becoming more or less sparse because travel was so difficult. Don't forget that the Russians had shelter from the cold, the Germans did not. I didn't say they couldn't have been more successful, I just said that they wouldn't and couldn't have beaten Russia no matter the circumstances. Russia is too big and has too many people to be conquered in just nine months. The only way I could see Germany beating Russia is by not declaring war on the United States and by having Japan cooperate in some way from the east and maybe, MAYBE, they could have defeated Russia. And I knew you would have something smart to say about how many pages I read, I just figured you wanted proof of my comments, instead of just thinking I was spouting off about something I don't know about.

Germany would have defeated the Russians had they not have been foreced to help out the italians in the South. It pushed their May invasion back until July...which in turn left them stranded in the brutal Russian winter. If they started earlier in the spring, they would've soundly defeated the demoralized and ill equipped Russian army. It was the roadlessness and freezing conditions that helped Russia more than anything else. But you're right in some instances, Hitler did take a few unnecessary short cuts and made changes by the original war plans on the fly, which hindered them greatly. He was a. oil hungry b. looking for jews Both of which diverted Hitler's attention away from the more pressing issues. Had he stuck by his original gameplan of a May start time, and focused on the war at hand, they would've won. so yes, I 50% agree with you. Nobody knows for sure if he would have defeated the Russians or not. He probably would have captured Moscow and Leningrad but he still would have had thousands of miles of territory to go and millions of Russians left who weren't going to just give up now that Germans were in their homeland raping and pillaging. That's just my opinion from reading more than a thousand pages on the subject this semester, though since it's only speculation on both our parts nobody is really wrong.

Hitler was by no stretch of the imagination a military genius. He may have made a good division or corps commander, but as an army or army group commander he would have been subpar. He gained a lot of respect after his successes in France and Russia, but the truth is he didn't come up with the French invasion plans (Manstein did), and his invasion of Russia, while extremely successful at the start, was still badly managed and had potential to be even more of a success in the right hands.

Just to be a nitpicker , Rudolf Hess was the one whom Hitler had write Mein Kampf in prison, not Joseph Goebbels. Sorry, Bruznell, history-major douchebag speaking here

Germany lost the war when they failed to take Moscow in December of '41. After that is was all downhill for Germany, even though they achieved their territorial peak in '42, it was apparent that they weren't going to defeat Russia, especially after America entered the war and started to land in Africa. Rommel and many other high ranking officers realised this, but Hitler refused to listen, instead living in a fantasy world with phantom armies and panzer units. As for the Holocaust, Hitler shouldn't receive all the blame. He wanted the Jews gone, regardless of the method, but never actually said specifics as to how they should be disposed of. That fell on Reinhard Heydrich, number 2 man in the SS and Himmler's right hand man, who many thought would succeed Hitler as the next fuhrer. He got the word from Goering to start the liquidation of the Jews and proceeded to initiate the "Final Solution", i.e., the extermination of the Jewish race. He got killed by Czech mercenaries in 1942, and Kaltenbrunner succeeded him and implemented even more effective methods of killing. So pretty much it boils down to this, Hitler wanted the Jews gone, Goering gave the go ahead to start the Final Solution, Heydrich was the mastermind, Himmler was head of the SS and so took a large part in the killing as well, and Kaltenbrunner was Heydrich's successor as the head of the Final Solution. Those five men bear almost all the blame (also Adolf Eichmann, another high ranking Nazi official) for the attempted extermination of the Jewish race and are equally guilty in my eyes. They all got what was coming to them though, even if took thirty years for Eichmann to get his.

I'm gonna play devil's advocate here and say Season 3 is the best season, but I still like 4 and 5.

Kikuta: One of the best ground fighters in the world. Won the Abu Dabhi open-weight class tournament and he's only 185 lbs.

I got: Simpsons Season 5 Sopranos Season 1: always wanted that, it was a nice surprise Two Pride Fighting DVD's Some gloves cuz I don't have any some money and two books: Photgraphic History of World War II (History major) Muay Thai Training Techniques

In other words, the ones that are in we don't want to see, the ones that are still negotiating we kind of want to see, and the ones that are out are the ones we definitely want to see. I think I'll pass.