Rob E Dangerously

Rodney King (or Mack) is married to Jazz.

Cliff, USE THE RIGHT HAND!

all of these are from my inbox: "Hovercraft Toy, Available for the first time!" "HOVERCRAFT TOY, Available for the first time! " "No more small penis - We Guarantee it " "Hovercraft Toy, Available for the first time!" "Hovercraft" WHY DO YOU ALL KEEP E-MAILING ME HOVERCRAFT SPAM???????

Hey, it's probably a she, but I'd guess she likes girls anyways so it's not like it matters. Damn Brazilians trying to make me look bad, grow some hair woman!

here are my comments.. The English songs: "Not gonna get us" turned out good in English. "All the things she said" is a song I've heard since last August. "Show me love" is pretty good. "30 minutes" isn't as good. The 80s cover song (I forget the title) was very good. Clowns was.. odd and good. Malichi Boy (or as it's called in English, Gay Boy) was weak. The Russian Songs: Nas de degonat (not gonna get us) was pretty good in Russian The Russian "All the Things she said" is pleasant and then the extended "Show me love" is like the first one, but longer. I give it 3 out of 5. Tatu could use some more songs on their next CDs

Funaki and SOH are together?

Copied from the WrestlingClassics messege board: 16. He took out the Bat-Shark Repellent from his utility belt and replaced it with Viagra. 15. It's been a steady decline for Bruce Wayne ever since he switched to the Gotham Badass gimmick. 14. He won't let his sidekick listen to ROBIN TROWER on the Batmobile's 8-track deck. 13. Refuses to put over Joker and Riddler only will job to Superman. 12. Hardly ever defends the Bat Utility Belt. 11. In a drunken state, drops his tights, motions to his crotch and says "How's this for a bat signal?" 10. He still won't elevate Robin 9. When he shows up at a crime scene, everyone starts yelling "BRUUUUUUUUUUUCE!" 8. It's hard for masked babyfaces to get over in Gotham City. 7. POW!, CRASH!, and ZOWIE! are no longer enough to cover all the blown spots during his hardcore matches with The Penguin's henchmen. 6. He was busted on The Gotham Turnpike, where he was weaving and sharing a 12 pack with The Riddler. 5. Citizens of Gotham got tired of his "Tonight will be the greatest night in the history of crime fighting" hype week after week. 4. Rumors began to circulate after he wouldn't join Catwoman's "Kiss My Ass" club. 3. Everyone knows Alfred is the real shooter of the stable. 2. People grew tired of him posting drunk and starting flame wars on www.crimefightingclassics.com . And the number one reason why Batman isn't cool anymore... He stopped selling in the cliffhangers after he started dating the commissioner's daughter. ---- Hehehe.. I felt like sharing that with you all.

Let me state this.. I am posting this to add some evidence to refute the idea that the US supported gassing the Kurds. I feel that claim is just bull that is believed by many without question. (Unless you're one of the people who claims that it never happened at all, then I don't know how you explain those dead Kurds). While I am against Bush domestically, when it comes to this war, I know there is no reasonable way to go against the US policy without continuing the dictatorship in Iraq or helping things remain screwed up later. Also, I dislike Saddam Hussein anyways and I wouldn't mind getting him out of power. So, let the copying and pasting begin. Some of this is new, some of this was featured back on the Knowledge is Power blog of mine. (cheap plug ) via 2facts.com "Iraq Said to Use Poison Gas in Major Drive on Kurds The Iraqi army had mounted a major drive, including the widespread use of poison gas, against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, according to reports Aug. 24-Sept. 8. More than 100,000 refugees fled across the border into Turkey as Iraq took advantage of the cease-fire in the Persian Gulf war to try to crush the Kurdish guerrilla movement once and for all. The Kurds were a non-Arab people whose unrecognized ethnic homeland of Kurdistan was located in rugged, mountainous terrain that spread across the borders of five nations. The majority of the Kurdish population lived in Iraq, Turkey and Iran, and autonomy- or independence-seeking Kurds in all three countries had risen periodically in rebellion over the years. Smaller Kurdish minorities lived in Syria and the Soviet Union. During the gulf war, both Iran and Iraq had aided Kurdish rebels fighting each other's governments. Iran had been more successful in this, and in the final stages of the war Kurds fighting alongside Iranian troops had posed a serious threat to Iraqi control and forced Baghdad to divert forces from the vital southern front. Iraq had responded with a scorched-earth campaign, launching chemical attacks on civilians (documented by the United Nations and the human rights organization Amnesty International), razing Kurdish villages and resettling their populations in other parts of the country. Iraq's Kurds had formed a coalition of six dissident groups. The main fighting components were the pesh merga ("those who face death") of the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), led by Massoud Barzani, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), led by Jalal Talabani. Iraq reportedly began offensive operations in Kurdistan around July 30, when a de facto truce in the gulf war--with the exception of minor border skirmishes--was already in place. Iran reportedly told its former Kurdish allies that it would no longer support them but would offer Kurdish dissidents asylum if they entered Iran unarmed. (A similar abandonment had occurred in 1975, when Iran ended an earlier dispute with Iraq and ceased its aid to Kurdish rebels, who had also received covert support from Israel and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Iraq then crushed the rebellion, which had been led by Mustafa al-Barzani, the father of Massoud.) Kurds Warn, Plead With U.N. The Times of London Aug. 16 reported that Iraq, under pressure from its primary arms supplier, the Soviet Union, had offered to hold peace talks with the Kurdish rebels. The diplomatic option apparently never got off the ground, however, and Iraq stepped up its attacks after the formal cease-fire with Iran went into effect Aug. 20. Barzani and Talabani Aug. 25-26 appealed to the U.N. to press Iraq not to use chemical weapons and warned that there could be no comprehensive peace in the region without a just settlement of the Kurdish problem. A rebel spokesman, noting that half the frontier lay in Kurdistan, said that U.N. observers would face "arrest" if they entered the area without rebel permission. The story began receiving major press coverage Aug. 31, the day after Turkey officially opened its borders to accept Kurdish civilians fleeing the Iraqi offensive. Diplomats said Iraq had deployed 60,000 of its most elite troops and backed them up with tanks, artillery, fighter-bombers, helicopter gunships and chemical weapons. Estimates of the number of Kurds crossing into Turkey varied, but most put the number at well over 100,000. Many refugees said they had been witness to or had heard of massive poison gas attacks on villages and camps in the mountains near the border. Rebels charged that Iraqi troops had massacred about 1,300 civilians, mostly women and children, in the Dahuk area Aug. 28. Many of the victims allegedly were already suffering from chemical weapons injuries, and rebels said they had been killed to prevent news and evidence of the gas attacks from spreading. A KDP official said overall casualty reports were sketchy because contact with rebel units inside Iraq was difficult. He claimed that guerrillas had destroyed Iraq's 66th special forces brigade in the Sidikan region, killing at least 400 men. But by Sept. 6, refugees in Turkey were acknowledging that the Iraqi drive--which many called a "war of extermination"--had perhaps dealt a fatal blow to the Kurdish resistance, particularly to the KDP, many of whose members were still trapped inside Iraq. Baghdad Denies Charges Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz Sept. 3 in Geneva admitted that "large numbers" of Kurdish civilians had fled Iraq. But he claimed that the Kurdish rebellion had collapsed and denied that chemical weapons had been used. Iraqi troops were seen Sept. 5 raising flags along the Turkish border, a strip of territory long claimed by the rebels as a "liberated zone." Baghdad Sept. 6 announced an amnesty for the guerrillas, including those who had fled into Turkey, but a Kurdish spokesman dismissed the offer as propaganda. The Iraqi decree specifically excluded PUK leader Talabani (currently said to be in Damascus, Syria), accusing him of breaking previous agreements. Turkish Premier Turgut Ozal Sept. 1 offered the Kurdish refugees temporary asylum, and possibly a new home. On Sept. 5 he accused Iraq of "a massacre of innocent people using every possible weapon." Meanwhile, it was reported Sept. 3 that Turkey had made a conditional offer of sanctuary to Barzani, who then denied that he intended to give up the fight. Ozal's sympathetic treatment of the refugees was reported to have strongly boosted his ruling party's popularity among Turkey's own Kurdish citizens, whose ethnic identity was officially suppressed by the Turkish government. Turkey, nonetheless, was leery of the influx from Iraq, and Turkish security forces reportedly scrutinized refugees to screen out returning members of the PKK (Kurdish Workers' Party), which was waging an armed campaign for a separate Kurdish state in southeastern Turkey. Many of the refugees were moved away from the border, and the New York Times Sept. 7 reported that Turkish authorities had already transferred at least 2,000 Iraqi Kurds to Iran against their will. U.S. Accuses Iraq The Reagan administration Sept. 1 and 6 expressed deep concern over the reports of Iraq's use of outlawed chemical weapons but said it was awaiting proof of the charges. The State Department Sept. 8 said it had obtained proof and blasted Iraq's actions as "abhorrent and unjustifiable." The condemnation came as Secretary of State George Shultz met in Washington with Iraqi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Saddoun Hammadi. Shultz told him that the continued use of poison gas would affect overall U.S.-Iraqi relations. Leaving the meeting, Hammadi called the charges "absolutely baseless." U.S. officials said the "supporting evidence" that convinced them of Iraq's guilt included the reports from American sources in Turkey, as well as eyewitness accounts and "other technical means involving intelligence." The Iraqi arsenal reportedly included mustard gas, which burned the skin and was often fatal if inhaled, as well as more lethal Tabun nerve gas and cyanide gas. U.S. officials said they were particularly angry because Baghdad's previously stated rationale for using chemical weapons--that they were a last-ditch defense against a more numerous Iranian foe--did not apply in the repression of the Kurds. Sen. Claiborne Pell (D, R.I.) Sept. 8 introduced a bill calling for sanctions to punish Iraq for what he characterized as its anti-Kurdish "genocide."" "U.S. Senate Passes Sanctions The international furor over charges that Iraq had used chemical weapons in its battle against Kurdish insurgents continued to mount Sept. 9-15. The U.S. Senate voted to impose punitive sanctions on Iraq, while Iraq and Turkey said they would not cooperate with a proposed investigation by United Nations experts. (...) The Senate bill, sponsored by Sen. Claiborne Pell (D, R.I.) and passed unanimously Sept. 9, would suspend U.S. credit and most sales to Iraq and would require American representatives to international financial institutions to vote against all loans to Iraq. It was considered one of the fastest and strongest congressional responses to an international human rights violation. The bill then went to the House, where approval in some form was considered likely. The State Department, however, apparently leery of further damaging relations with Baghdad, said the sanctions drive was "premature." (The European Parliament Sept. 15 called for European governments to ban shipments to Iraq of arms and any equipment that could be used to make chemical weapons.) Meanwhile, the U.S. defended its claim to have obtained proof of Iraq's guilt. U.S. diplomats Sept. 9 cited interviews with Kurdish refugees in Turkey who showed injuries typical of gas attacks. Reagan administration officials Sept. 15 said U.S. intelligence had intercepted Iraqi military communications indicating the use of chemical weapons. Turkey, backing away from its initial criticism of Iraq, Sept. 9 and 13 claimed that its officials and doctors had not been able to confirm that the various ailments that many of the Kurdish refugees were suffering from could be blamed on poison gas. The U.S., Britain, West Germany and Japan Sept. 12 asked U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar to send a team of experts to investigate the chemical arms claims. (The U.S.S.R., Belgium and the Netherlands Sept. 15 joined the demand.) Iraq said it would reject such an inquiry as interference in its internal affairs, and Turkey Sept. 14 said a U.N. probe on its territory would be unnecessary and unwelcome. Iraq Sept. 11 launched an Iranian-style propaganda barrage against the U.S. Tens of thousands of chanting protesters marched past the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, and Iraq's state-controlled media highlighted the U.S. use of napalm and alleged use of chemical weapons in Vietnam as well as the atomic bomb attacks on Japan in World War II. Iraqi Defense Minister Gen. Adnan Khairallah, in a rare interview with Western reporters, Sept. 15 hinted that his government reserved the right to use whatever means it deemed necessary to deal with Kurdish "traitors" who had supported "the Iranian enemy." While Iraq was opposed to using poison gas, he said, "each rule has an exception." But he also claimed that using gas would not be logical because it would pollute the Iraqi army's own lines of advance." One thing I will admit: the sanctions never made it out of the Senate, due to the tendancy of the House to delete amendments dealing with Iraq sanctions (smooth move). You can't just claim it was some 'wink-wink-we-support-ya' deal either. The gassing of the Kurds was the beginning of the decline in American-Iraqi relations, leading to the Gulf War and so on. some more stuff I found Middle East: U.S. Senators Tour Region "Although it was not originally on their itinerary, the senators April 12 paid a visit to Iraq and talked to President Saddam Hussein. They delivered a letter from U.S. President Bush warning that Iraq's advanced weapons programs "provoke dangerous tensions throughout the Middle East." Hussein denied that his regime was trying to develop atomic or biological weapons, but repeated his threat to attack Israel with chemical weapons if it staged a nuclear strike on Iraq. He offered to scrap Iraq's nonconventional arms if Israel agreed to eliminate its chemical and nuclear weapons." and what about Ambassador Glaspie? "THE HOME FORUM D. SNOWMAN OF BETHLEHEM, CONN., ASKS, 'WHATEVER HAPPENED TO...?' US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie Carleton Cole Eight days before his Aug. 2, 1990, invasion of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein met with April Glaspie, then America's ambassador to Iraq. It was the last high-level contact between the two countries before Iraq went to war. GLASPIE: In March 1991, she told a Senate committee that 'we foolishly did not realize [saddam] was stupid.' MARCY NIGHSWANDER/AP/FILE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From a translation of Iraq's transcript of the meeting, released that September, press and pundits concluded that Ms. Glaspie had (in effect) given Saddam a green light to invade. "We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts," the transcript reports Glaspie saying, "such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary [of State James] Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction ... that Kuwait is not associated with America." The Persian Gulf War began Jan. 17, 1991. But before the official end of the war (April 11), Glaspie was called to testify informally before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. She said she was the victim of "deliberate deception on a major scale," and denounced the Iraqi transcript as "a fabrication" that distorted her position, though it contained "a great deal" that was accurate. The veteran diplomat awaited her next assignment, later taking a low-profile job at the United Nations. In November 1992, Iraq's former deputy prime minister, Tarik Aziz, gave Glaspie some vindication. He said she had not given Iraq a green light. "She just listened and made general comments," he told USA Today. "We knew the United States would have a strong reaction."" ---- The one thing I don't like is being misinformed. I hope this post worked out for all of you. Happy Presidents Day

They should have Ted DiBiase being out a fake Al Wilson leading to Dawn Marie announcing she can bring back Al Wilson, leading to an Al Wilson v. Al Wilson match at Summerslam

WCMB = Wrestling Classics Messegeboard If you want a link to a pic or something, I don't have one at the moment

via WCMB.. Drop X-Pac, not Bombs. I hope that's true.. just for the sheer oddity of it.

Actually, I was trying to pair somebody up with Iowa there.

Another mime from Costa Rica

He's come out on top of the field but the other contenders are linked in my blog. this guy would have gotten the nod if he wasn't found first by another blogger

My idea

Under that rivalry system, teams that wouldn't play each other. OSU: Northwestern/Indiana Iowa: Northwestern/Indiana Michigan: Wisconsin/Illinois Penn State: Wisconsin/Illinois Purdue: Michigan State/Minnesota Illinois: Penn State/Michigan Minnesota: Michigan State/Purdue Wisconsin: Michigan/Penn State Michigan State: Purdue/Minnesota Northwestern: Iowa/Ohio State Indiana: Iowa/Ohio State The whole thing is screwed up since Michigan State HAS to play Penn State and Michigan

Big 12 Each team gets two teams to play every year. Baylor- Iowa State/Kansas Oklahoma- Kansas/Nebraska Oklahoma State- Colorado/Kansas State Texas- Kansas State/Nebraska Texas A&M- Colorado/Missouri Texas Tech- Missouri/Iowa State Colorado- A&M/Oklahoma State Iowa State- Baylor/Texas Tech Kansas- Oklahoma/Baylor Kansas State- Texas/Oklahoma State Missouri- Texas A&M/Texas Tech Nebraska- Oklahoma/Texas 2003 But for the third intradivisional game, the team will face the team that finished in the same spot at them in 2002. Due to a few matchups, 6th in South faces 5th in North (and vice-versa) and third in South faces second in North (and vice-versa) due to the matches above Baylor/Missouri Texas A&M/Kansas Oklahoma State/Nebraska Texas Tech/Kansas State Texas/Iowa State Oklahoma/Colorado Big Ten Rivalry games (Matchups that will take place every year) Ohio State-Michigan Iowa-Penn State Indiana-Purdue Illinois-Northwestern Minnesota-Wisconsin (Michigan State not included) 1st & 2nd place don't play 10th and 11th place (unless one of the teams is their 'must play' match) 3rd & 4th don't play 8th and 9th 5th doesn't play 6th and 7th 6th doesn't play 5th and 7th 7th doesn't play 5th and 6th THE NON-PLAY SCHEDULE (Teams that will not face this team in 2003) Illinois- Minnesota/Purdue Indiana- Iowa/Ohio State Iowa- Northwestern/Indiana Michigan- Michigan State/Wisconsin Michigan State- Michigan/Penn State Minnesota- Illinois/Purdue Northwestern- Iowa/Ohio State Ohio State- Northwestern/Indiana Penn State- Michigan State/Wisconsin Purdue- Illinois/Minnesota Wisconsin- Michigan/Penn State CONFERENCE USA- 1st & 2nd place don't play 10th and 11th place 3rd & 4th don't play 8th and 9th 5th doesn't play 6th and 7th 6th doesn't play 5th and 7th 7th doesn't play 5th and 6th South Florida is seeded in 7th place for the purpose of schedule due to going 4-0 against CUSA teams (Meaning that ECU is 8th, UH is 9th, Memphis is 10th and Army is 11th). They are ranked below 4-4 teams Tulane and UAB due to not having faced either team and above 4-4 team ECU for beating them. NON-Matchups: (teams that these teams will not play in 2003) Army- TCU and Cincinnati Cincinnati- Memphis and Army East Carolina- Louisville and Southern Miss Houston- Louisville and Southern Miss Louisville- ECU and Houston Memphis- TCU and Cincinnati Southern Miss- ECU and Houston TCU- Memphis and Army Tulane- USF and UAB UAB- Tulane and USF USF- Tulane and UAB SEC- Formula- #1/2/3 play #1/2/3 in the other division #4/5/6 play #4/5/6 in the other division East- Florida- Alabama/Auburn/Arkansas Georgia- Alabama/Auburn/Arkansas Kentucky- LSU/Ol Miss/Mississippi State South Carolina- LSU/Ol Miss/Mississippi State Tennessee- Alabama/Auburn/Arkansas Vanderbilt- LSU/Ol Miss/Mississippi State West- Alabama- Florida/Georgia/Tennessee Arkansas- Florida/Georgia/Tennessee Auburn- Florida/Georgia/Tennessee LSU- Kentucky/South Carolina/Vanderbilt Mississippi- Kentucky/South Carolina/Vanderbilt Mississippi St.- Kentucky/South Carolina/Vanderbilt MAC- Formula- #1 doesn't play #6 #2 doesn't play #5 #3 doesn't play #4 #7 plays all six other teams Intradivision- #1 plays #1/2/3 in the other division #2 plays #1/2/3 in the other division #3 plays #1/2/3 in the other division #4 plays #4/5/6 in the other division #5 plays #4/5/6 in the other division #6 plays #4/5/7 in the other division #7 plays #6/7 in the other division Akron- Marshall/Miami/Ohio/Kent State/Buffalo and Ball State/Western Michigan/Central Michigan Ball St- Toledo/NIU/Western Michigan/Central Michigan/Eastern Michigan and Ohio/Akron/Kent State Bowling Green- Toledo/NIU/Western Michigan/Central Michigan/Eastern Michigan and Marshall/UCF/Miami Buffalo- Marshall/UCF/Miami/Ohio/Akron/Kent State and Central Michigan/Eastern Michigan Central Mich- Toledo/Bowling Green/Ball State/Western Michigan/Eastern Michigan and Ohio/Akron/Buffalo Eastern Mich- NIU/Toledo/Bowling Green/Ball State/Western Michigan/Central Michigan and Kent State/Buffalo Kent St- UCF/Miami/Ohio/Akron/Buffalo and Ball State/Western Michigan/Eastern Michigan Marshall- UCF/Miami/Ohio/Akron/Buffalo and NIU/Toledo/Bowling Green Miami- UCF/Marshall/Akron/Kent State/Buffalo and NIU/Toledo/Bowling Green NIU- Toledo/Bowling Green/Ball State/Western Michigan/Eastern Michigan and Marshall/UCF/Miami Ohio- UCF/Marshall/Akron/Kent State/Buffalo and Ball State/Western Michigan/Central Michigan Toledo- NIU/Bowling Green/Ball State/Central Michigan/Eastern Michigan and Marshall/UCF/Miami UCF- Marshall/Miami/Ohio/Kent State/Buffalo and NIU/Toledo/Bowling Green West Michigan- NIU/Bowling Green/Ball State/Central Michigan/Eastern Michigan and Ohio/Akron/Kent State PAC 10- Unoffically divided into North (Washington/Washington State/Oregon/Oregon State), South (UCLA/USC/Arizona/Arizona State) and Neutral (Stanford/Cal). The Best of Neutral is aligned in the division with the worst top team, for 2003, since Washington State won the Pac 10, Cal is in South and Stanford is in North. BYES in 2003 (matchups that will not occur due to alignment and 2002 results) USC/Stanford Arizona State/Oregon UCLA/Washington California/Oregon State Arizona/Washington State WAC- #1 doesn't play #10 (Boise State/Tulsa) #2 doesn't play #9 (Hawaii/UTEP) #3 doesn't play #8 (Fresno State/SMU) #4 doesn't play #7 (SJSU/LA-Tech) #5 doesn't play #6 (Nevada/Rice) ----- Which one do you like the most? Which one sucks the most? Any other comments?

how many of them were drafted out of HS? I think a few of them were, which can explain how they flopped

Ragone seems really big and tough. I bet the most accurate QB in the nation will be snubbed. He is Brian Jones of Toledo, who went 297-423 for 3446 yards with 23 TD passes. (link: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/player/profi...playerId=114340 ) the worst Jones did in a game this year was a 55% completion percentage. The best place for Kliff to start would be one with a wide-open offense and a DAMNED GOOD OL. Kliff did get sacked 44 times (less than only Ragone and Jason Johnson of Arizona) in 2002.

"Mike Holmgren's four-year record is identical, but you don't hear much about that." Mike Holmgren also won a Super Bowl before he came to Seattle. Dennis Erickson didn't have quite the same experience

I contend that with time, a team that could get Kingsbury, JR Tolver and Kassim Osgood would be awesome. Kliff- 5017 yards passing JR Tolver- 1785 yards recieving Osgood- 1552 yards recieving and if the same team can get Brock Forsey (Boise State), they'd rock the body that rocks the party

the very fact that I put that phrase (Liberal media) in quotation marks shows that I dispute the idea that the media is biased towards liberals. You see, the media is biased towards ratings and they think that going against war will cost them ratings. You'd think that if there was a 'liberal media', they would have also brought up the issue of the sources of the Powell UK dossier. Damn liberals.

Turn up your hearing aid

Out of two 'top 50' lists The Draft Insiders list 1. Carson Palmer (1st overall) 2. Byron Leftwich (3rd overall) 3. Chris Simms (14th overall) 4. Dave Ragone (28th overall) 5. Rex Grossman (39th overall) 6. Kyle Boller (41st overall) The CFN/Pete Fiutak list 1. Carson Palmer 2. Byron Leftwich 3. Dave Ragone 4. Rex Grossman --- CHRIS SIMMS? Come on!! I say that Troy Edwards (QB, Senior, Eastern Michigan) should go really late. 2762 yards passing, 22 TDs (18 INTs/sacked 25 times). It's hard to get so many yards passing when your team ends up sucking enough to go 3-9 while giving up 566 points (NCAA record) *marks Troy Edwards down on his 'sign as a free agent and waive in training camp' list* I still think there is a sleeper QB that will stun the NFL in the class of 2003

And Churchill. Don't forget Churchill. With 4/5 of London on fire, he basically extended his middle finger to the Nazis and dared them to come back. When the Queen Mother died, people talked about what an inspiration she was during WWII. Fuck that noise: Churchill was the heart and soul of Great Britain in the early 1940's. The queen never made a speech like this... Churchill did. Give him his props. Also, I found out today that in order to make his meeting with Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia in 1945, just a bit better, Churchill smoked cigars and drank alcohol. In Islam, alcohol is a no-no "I must point out that my rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them." Winston Churchill, Said during a lunch with the Arab leader Ibn Saud, when he heard that the king's religion forbade smoking and alcohol. Not to mention that Churchill really disliked the Saudis in the first place.