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[Read the article: The real two-state solution]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did the author's tone remind anyone else of that Pulp song "Common People"? You know "'cause everybody hates a tourist, especially one who thinks it all such a laugh"?
I dunno, maybe I'm way off there...but it really seemed like the author refuses to see the other side of the equation - just what being an Israeli Jew entails.
As for the bigger issue here, I can't help but keep coming back to the idea that both sides are fighting for a dead ideal. This whole notion of the ethnically homogenous state is a 19th Century ideal that should've rightly been laid to rest with Wilsonian Democracy. It just doesn't work anymore, Globalization also means globalization of peoples as well as labour.
The sooner the two sides realize this, and the sooner they bring their respective extreme populations under control, the sooner there'll be peace.
(of course this assumes that the earlier poster who highlighted just how much the US gains from all this strife is wrong - and he's not.)
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thoughts about the game
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1) What's the deal with refs (or umps or judges, or whoever made those calls) over-riding each other? On both those blown calls (the Harris strip of Owens, and the phantom pass-interference late in the game) the first ref made the call that went the Packers way, only to be over-ridden by another one...what's the deal with that? Is there seniority at play here?
2) Either Chris Collingsworth was high, or he's the most subtle comedian of all time. At one point he said "T.O doesn't want to be banging Al Harris all night" and later he complimented Ware by referring to him as "a tool" (but really he meant "asset"
3) Also with Collingsworth - what's with him claiming every person in the game was "one of the best in the league"? Al Harris is a fine player, but sheesh, lay off the histrionics Chris!
4) Rodgers really really impressed me...strong arm, quick feet..who knew?
5) What in god's name was Favre doing? Man, it's like he lost his mind for a quarter and thought it was 2005 all over again! I was staring at the screen dumbfounded.
6) You know what I never understood? How whenever the backup gets put into the game, the announcers always talk about how they have to simplify the offense, because he doesn't get the same snaps with the more "exotic" (god I hate that adjective for football plays!) plays. And without fail, they succeed with the simplified offense. Now why wouldn't a team just stick with the simplified offense if it always seems to work? I mean I know every offensive co-ordinator wants to be seen as a genius, but man...isn't the point to win games? Are these people just over-thinking things
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oh yeah!
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Post of the day/month/year:
"Evel Knievel is, of course, ridiculous.
BUT Evel Knievel is also completely AWESOME."
Yup...he certainly is. Evel exists only in my childhood, and so he is, and always will be, AWESOME.
I lived on a suburban court/cul-de-sac...which made for totally rad jump courses...like a bmx version of horse jumping (but of course WAAAY AWESOMER). The only thing you forgot to mention was that in addition to bike-jumping things, and jumping off of things, there was great fun in jumping over things...for some reason...can't remember why though.
(thanks for the trip down childhood memory blvd there King, that was some top notch writing there)
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Speaking as the kid of a French Canadian...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love the guy, adore him really...been my guy for as long as I've cared about American Football...but why WHY does he have to butcher his last name so?
It's french dude, Fah-vre...not a hard one to mess up. I'll give you guys "Boise" (pronounced bwaah-ze - means forested) but FaR-ve? C'mon!
Oh Les Americains...pfft!
;)
p.s. Federer IS dynamite...singlehandedly made me care about tennis again, no mean feat that...there's something so compelling about an absolute titan in his field also being so down to earth and affable.
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cool!
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think I agree with the earlier poster who felt it was probably an internal joke memo that just hung around. Regargless, it's pretty cool, and pretty fascinating.
Just wonderin' King, what's your take on the proposed Lincecum for Alex Rios trade? Looks to me like a classic win-win trade - Rios is a great talent, could easily be a .300, 30, 100, 30 sb kind of player with an absolute cannon for an arm, and Lincecum? Well he's got some eeriely Pedro-esque potential. The Jays would end up with a stupidly good rotation (barring any sophmore slumps with McGowan and Marcum, and assuming that Burnett actually pitches for a full season), and the Giants would go quite a ways to replacing Bonds in the OF, only he's much younger and MUCH cheaper.
Wouldn't it be nice to see a talent for talent trade again?
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well
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]as one of the four Blue Jays fans left, I'm all over the trade!
It doesn't seem to make much sense to me either from a Giants standpoint, but I think Rios certainly has the potential to be more than "solid"...although he certainly would look so with all the protection he'd get in that lineup!
also "rusting hulk of Ray Durham" = gold.
cheers
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nice!
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nice link there King...you're right, I should've known better!
Thanks for the laugh on a slow friday afternoon :)