Is there a trick to knowing which video is next in the series if the YouTube title is too long to ever display the numbers at the end?

Open it up on Youtube, where related links display the whole title when you hover your pointer

HOLY SHIT LOG ON ICQ SOMETIME BOB. :|

has there ever been a THOMAS JEFFERSON - SECRET MUSLIM uproar?

if there hasn't, I'm starting it here

Hey, even Gordon Dietrich had a secret Koran. That's why he had to die.

Yes. If only all of us thought the same thing about everything all the time.

"Of all the sinking ships on earth, ours has the most charming captain."

I am so fucking stealing that.

Second Stealing~!

The job is supposed to age you, unless you did it wrong.

My, but doesn't Bush still look fit and healthy?

No, he doesn't: http://www.wafflesatnoon.com/images/bush43age.jpg

Bush always had a slouchy, sloppy attitude. Like the kid who knows you can't fire him cuz his dad owns the place.

Wow Teener. I think you're the first person ever to make that observation.

Wow. Asians. What continent is the Arabian Peninsula attached to?

Because, you see, I was under the impression that he wasn't addressing Africans, but Egyptians.

Get it?

I'm also glad to hear that Saudi Arabia, which has more televisions per capita than any other nation, has withstood the corporate onslaught.

I'm an athiest too, and I suspect we'd agree on a number of things. But you're wrong about Christianity being more likely, as the dominant religion in an area of the modern world, to impose harsh law than Islam; whether for the religious majority or minorities or atheists in said area/countries.

Most of the powers that be, across the planet, are a counter argument to your idea.

I'm guessing you believe this because you want this to be true, but why?

Randomly pick 5 Muslim-majority and 5 Christian-majority countries, and run around saying you're an atheist in all 10. See what you get.

"Randomly pick 5 Muslim-majority and 5 Christian-majority countries, and run around saying you're an atheist in all 10. See what you get."

As an atheist, you might want to try taking a more scientific, examination of the issue, rather than what you want to be true. Specifically in terms of accounting for other variables.

True, more Muslim-majority countries have repressive regimes. But religion isn't nearly as reliable an indicator as income, military history, and the type of government. Uganda is an 84% Christian nation that executes homosexuals, and Morocco is a prosperous, progressive Muslim country. Even a cursory examination of history shows that for much of our history, Christian-dominated Europe was more backward, violent and intolerant than Middle Eastern states. And our own renunciation of slavery and the murder of atheists and homosexuals is quite recent, less than 150 years, the separation growing based on the enlightenment and industrial revolution, rather than any difference that exists between the religions.

You could argue that Islam leads to poverty and tyranny whereas Christianity leads to progress, but clearly for longer periods of time than our modern era, the opposite was true. In fact, part of the way we were able to get ahead of other states was thorough the violent conquest and enslavement of indigenous populations, justified through Christianity. Its not clear that the Koran is any more violent or restrictive of rights than the Bible, unless of course you start to ignore those passages that are clearly now offensive and wrong.

Accuse me of cherry-picking and try to prove it by cherry-picking? Previous centuries and Uganda vs Morocco?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner#Jelly_doughnut_u rban_legend


Just to be an anal holeface

ha... nice

I am disputing at least part of that Wikipedia article. "Ich bin Berliner" would actually be the more accurate precisely because that was Kennedy's point: he wasn't saying "I am figuratively speaking not unlike you to a certain extent", he was saying "I am one of you".

That said, there is no chance that anyone misunderstood what he meant, and the business about editorial cartoons is sheer Bologna. To such extent as it can be considered a gaffe (and in German there's always a grammatical error lurking just past the next participle), it was a very benign one amidst a wildly successful display of statesmanship.

Eddie Izzard's take is probably the best one. (New York accent) "FuGEDdaboutit! He's an aMERican! He's a DOnut!"

... and today I lean towards "ein" being correct. "Ich bin Berliner" is a very matter-of-fact, unemphatic statement, probably too unemphatic to make the point properly.

Either way, nobody in Berlin was the tiniest bit confused. They didn't even ask to see Kennedy's long-form birth certificate.