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Babylon Bankers
Post Date: 2010-10-02 08:29:38 by Itistoolate
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Babylon Bankers The Threshing Radio Show-September 30, 2009-Randy Maugans with Ev Haliford threshingfloor-radio.com/...09-Babylon-Bankers-Ev.mp3 “For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.“-Revelation 18:3 We had to cancel the Friday night “Watchmen Live” show (due to the loss of the studio network), but Ev was “loaded for bear”, so we convened on the phone for this informal presentation which should be considered a primer for the uninformed “Christians” who are mired in ...
Privatize Football
Post Date: 2010-09-21 06:40:58 by Ada
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In 1874, students from Harvard University and Canada's McGill University played a two-game football series in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The first game was played under Harvard's Association Football rules, what we know today as soccer. The second game was played by McGill's rules, a variant of rugby. The McGill rules proved so popular with the Harvard players they adopted and taught them to other eastern schools. The next year, Harvard played Tufts University in what was likely the first game of "American football." By 1876, students from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia had formed the Intercollegiate Football Association to develop and maintain common playing ...
Support Your Local Army of Occupation
Post Date: 2010-09-21 06:37:31 by Ada
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"Wouldn't it be great if it were like this all the time?" commented a pleasant middle-aged gentleman as the two of us contemplated the large gathering of armed men in camouflage who had materialized in Payette's Centennial Park. "I feel really secure with these guys around." "Actually, I'd feel much more secure if the guns were in the hands of people who aren't government employees," I replied, prompting a puzzled look from my new acquaintance. Centennial Park is located just inside the Snake River boundary separating Idaho from Oregon. For reasons I've yet to learn, every time I visit the park to do calisthenics and sprints -- regardless ...
My Morning Run
Post Date: 2010-09-20 07:32:15 by James Deffenbach
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Poster Comment:A friend sent me this video in email and I found it on youtube. I think it's great.
Gymkhana THREE, Part 2; Ultimate Playground; l'Autodrome, France
Post Date: 2010-09-15 02:36:54 by X-15
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Poster Comment:Ken Block got mad skillz.
NFL talks to female reporter about Jets
Post Date: 2010-09-14 21:31:12 by freepatriot32
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After a summer in the spotlight, the Jets are under scrutiny again. The ''Hard Knocks'' stars are being investigated by the NFL for the way Jets players and coaches carried on when they were visited by a female reporter from a Mexican TV network during the team's practice Saturday. Ines Sainz, of Mexico's TV Azteca, said on her Twitter account Saturday that she felt ''very uncomfortable!'' in the Jets' locker room, where a few players let loose with some ''Whooo-weee!'' catcalls as she waited with two male co-workers to interview quarterback Mark Sanchez, who is of Mexican descent. ''Of course you feel it when you are ...
Bean-Counters and Baloney
Post Date: 2010-08-13 06:45:14 by Ada
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The bean-counters have struck again – this time in the sports pages. Two New York Times sport writers have discovered that baseball coaches from minority groups are found more often coaching at first base than at third base. Moreover, third-base coaches become managers more often than first-base coaches. This may seem to be just another passing piece of silliness. But it is part of a more general bean-counting mentality that turns statistical differences into grievances. The time is long overdue to throw this race card out of the deck and start seeing it for the gross fallacy that it is. At the heart of such statistics is the implicit assumption that different races, sexes and other ...
Hard-hitting former Raider Jack Tatum dies at 61
Post Date: 2010-07-28 08:53:40 by Eric Stratton
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Hard-hitting former Raider Jack Tatum dies at 61 By RUSTY MILLER, AP Sports Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)—Jack Tatum seemed proud of his nickname: “Assassin.” The moniker stuck with the former Oakland Raiders safety even after his playing days—and it’s one that strikes an odd chord considering how Tatum is tied to one of the more tragic moments in the game’s history. Tatum was one of the hardest hitters in the NFL, a Pro Bowler who intimidated opposing players with bone-jarring tackles that helped make his Raiders one of the toughest teams of its era. He’s also a player who will always be remembered for a hard hit in a preseason game that left New England ...
Where The White Man Went Wrong
Post Date: 2010-07-15 22:29:07 by Flintlock
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Poster Comment:That's one smart red skin
Off-Base: Imagine If George Steinbrenner had been able to buy the Indians?
Post Date: 2010-07-14 15:15:05 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Imagine The Boss in Cleveland The great irony behind George Steinbrenner's ownership of the Yankees is that they weren't his original target. He settled for the Yankees only after he couldn't buy his first choice, the mighty Cleveland Indians, the previous year. What would have baseball been like had Steinbrenner been able to buy Indians instead? Off-Base takes a look at a parallel universe ... 1972: Steinbrenner purchases the Indians for $12 million and promises to not get involved in the day-to-day operations of the ballclub. He then fires recently-hired manager Ken Aspromonte and hires Billy Martin, which presents a tricky situation because Martin is unfortunately managing ...
Belly-Button Key to Sucess in Sports
Post Date: 2010-07-14 11:20:39 by Turtle
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Scientists have found the reason why blacks dominate on the running track and whites in the swimming pool: it’s in their belly-buttons, a study published Monday shows. What’s important is not whether an athlete has an innie or an outie but where his or her navel is in relation to the rest of the body, says the study published in the International Journal of Design and Nature and Ecodynamics. The navel is the center of gravity of the body, and given two runners or swimmers of the same height, one black and one white, “what matters is not total height but the position of the belly-button, or center of gravity,” Duke University professor Andre Bejan, the lead author of ...
Don't Send That Outraged E-Mail
Post Date: 2010-07-14 06:32:28 by Ada
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Blog it instead, I'm going to show you how. It's free. It's fast. It's the way to go. Ask Matt Drudge. He didn't send an email to Newsweek deploring the spiking of an article. He posted his report – without objections – on his blog in 1998. This eventually got a President impeached. His site gets 6 million visits a day. Meanwhile, Newsweek is up for sale. Here is the great irony: DrudgeReport.com (two employees) is worth more than Newsweek. So, you read a bonehead article. You're convinced that what that author really needs is a piece of your mind. You think you can spare it. You have decided to sit down and write him an email. Here are ten good reasons ...
Is Jousting the Next Extreme Sport?
Post Date: 2010-07-12 12:07:56 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Is Jousting the Next Extreme Sport? By DASHKA SLATER Published: July 5, 2010 The gates of the Gulf Coast International Jousting Championships opened at 6 p.m. one Friday in January at a 4,500-seat arena 13 miles outside Pensacola, Fla. Some of the spectators were dressed in leather doublets and velvet gowns; some wore jeans and cowboy hats or American-flag-patterned do-rags. Most seemed to have come out of idle curiosity rather than any previous knowledge of the sport. “From what I hear, the combat’s going to be smackin’,” a man named Paul Johnson told me, punching his knuckles together. He estimated he had seen the movie “A Knight’s Tale” a couple dozen ...
Larissa Riquelme is incredibly popular for some reason
Post Date: 2010-07-02 16:27:52 by James Deffenbach
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Sometimes television cameras at sporting events turn their powerful focus from the field of play to the giddy and/or inconsolable masses in the stands. And sometimes that focus sticks for more than just the few seconds until a beer ad can be readied or the athlete with a torn meniscus can be dragged off. In the case of Larissa Riquelme, that focus is sticking and has quickly heaved her to international popularity with at least half the population that has seen her. Described as Paraguay's No. 1 fan, Riquelme is a model like so many others you've never ever heard of but seen pictured in popular alleys of the Internet. Yet because of her emphatic support of her national team and the ...
ORANJE CRUSH !!!
Post Date: 2010-07-02 13:37:26 by Lysander_Spooner
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Netherlands beats Brazil 2-1 at World Cup By ANDREW DAMPF, AP Sports Writer 31 minutes ago Printable View Return to Original Email Print Wesley Sneijder of the Netherlands celebrates scoring the game-winning goal against Brazil. (Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images) PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa (AP)—The Netherlands came from behind to stun five-time champion Brazil 2-1 Friday and become the first semifinalist of the World Cup. Wesley Sneijder scored the winner in the 68th minute with a header following a corner kick. “It just slipped through from my bald head and it was a great feeling,” Sneijder said. It was the Netherlands’ first win over Brazil since the 1974 World ...
World Cup 2010: Model Larissa Riquelme promises to run through streets naked if Paraguay wins [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-06-30 16:09:20 by James Deffenbach
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Paraguayan model Larissa Riquelme (center) has promised to run through the streets of Asuncion naked if her country's team wins the World Cup. Paraguay has a lot riding on its progress in the World Cup. National fame and pride, maybe a little extra money in their pockets. If the White and Red goes all the way and take the championship on July 11, though, there'll be a naked lingerie model running through the streets of their country, too. Larissa Riquelme is a Paraguayan model who has become the most famous fan of her national team recently. She's been among the throngs gathering in Asuncion, the nation's capital, to watch their team play in the month-long tournament. ...
Capitalist Soccer and Socialist Football
Post Date: 2010-06-28 14:58:51 by Lysander_Spooner
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Capitalist Soccer and Socialist Football Former congressman and star quarterback Jack Kemp once said that "…a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalist, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport," in a June 19, 2006 column Kemp recanted (well, sort of). His new view is that "…I love soccer, but it’s still boring. Oops, there I go again." In actuality, I rather liked Kemp’s column. It’s witty in a tongue-in-cheek sort of way. But is there a kernel of truth in his musings (both old and new)? Let’s consider the economic issues first. Granted, Europe is generally more socialistic than America, but it is not the case ...
World Cup Odds - Chile Overmatched by Brazil
Post Date: 2010-06-28 13:21:01 by James Deffenbach
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Just as Dunga and the Brazilians welcome back a couple of its star performers, Chile loses a trio off its roster for Monday's FIFA World Cup Round of 16 contest. Brazil heads into the elimination round of the 2010 World Cup with perhaps the easiest path to the finals of all the top contending teams. Brazil avoids Argentina, Germany, Spain and even Mexico on their side of the Round of 16 betting bracket, needing to only face Chile on Monday and perhaps the Dutch to advance deep, with Uruguay or Ghana waiting down the road. DungaTheGreek.com has Brazil -175 soccer betting favorites over Chile who is a +525 underdog. The total is two and a regulation time draw is +275. The Samba Stars ...
The Day Soccer Revived America's Hope
Post Date: 2010-06-28 08:05:40 by Eric Stratton
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The Day Soccer Revived America's Hope Meredith Turney It was an ending so dramatic that even Hollywood’s best writers couldn’t have scripted it. After a courageous 90-minute fight against a defiant Algeria, it seemed that once again America’s World Cup dreams would end in disappointment. In just the first two weeks of the international competition, Team USA had been denied two game-changing goals and been on the losing end of questionable referring decisions, but had battled back. As millions of soccer fans watched with bated breath, American soccer star Landon Donavan scored an amazing goal with just three minutes of play remaining, sending America to the elite round ...
McChrystal’s Challenge
Post Date: 2010-06-23 06:22:08 by Ada
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A prank – or a provocation? All Washington is atwitter over a Rolling Stone profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal in which the thuggish commander of US forces in Afghanistan and his snarky juvenile-sounding aides (who call themselves “Team America”) deride Vice President Joe Biden” – “Joe Bite Me” – special envoy Richard Holbrooke (“‘Oh, not another e-mail from Holbrooke,’ he groans. ‘I don’t even want to open it.’”), White House national security adviser Jim Jones, and ambassador to Kabul Karl Eikenberry (a “clown”). Not even the president is spared: McChrystal’s team claims Obama was ...
Russians Whoop Pirate's Ass
Post Date: 2010-06-12 22:35:11 by Flintlock
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This videotape shows Russian Navy commandos on a Somalian pirate ship shortly after the pirates had captured a Russian oil tanker. The EuroUnion navy that patrols these waters would not interfere because they feared there could be casualties.All explanations are in Russian with a single exception of when a wounded pirate says something in English. All conversations between the commandos are in Russian. If you don't understand Russian, the pictures speak for themselves. The soldiers freed their compatriots, moved all the pirates to their own (pirate) ship, searched the pirate ship for weapons and explosives, and then they left the ship and exploded it with all remaining pirates on it. ...
World Cup 2010: 16 people injured in stadium crush (LOL!)
Post Date: 2010-06-08 11:44:56 by PSUSA
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Sixteen people, including two policemen, have been injured after a crush outside a South African ground hosting a World Cup warm-up game. Several fans fell under a rush of people outside the Makhulong Stadium in the Johannesburg suburb of Tembisa. Entry to the friendly between Nigeria and North Korea was free, and many more than the 10,000 capacity turned up. Football's world governing body Fifa has said it was not involved in any "operational" aspect of the fixture. A Fifa statement added that "contrary to some media reports, Fifa had nothing to do with the ticketing of this game". One fan, Japhta Mombelo, described the moment he was caught up in the chaos. ...
New Zealand's first South African training session was smelly
Post Date: 2010-06-08 11:28:58 by PSUSA
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By Brooks Peck A long, leg-cramping flight from Austria to South Africa had the New Zealand team looking to get a bit of exercise once it landed, so it headed for its training ground where it was met by a stinky, lung-smothering surprise guest.From New Zealand's Dominion Post:The All Whites' campaign in South Africa started in a bizarre fashion this morning when the first training was cut short because of the thick wood and coal fire smog from the surrounding Daveyton township. Just before the team arrived a solid, smelly fog descended on the pitch of Sinaba Stadium and made it difficult to breath or even see the corner flags. As the players waited in the bus outside the ...
Venus' outfit creates buzz at French Open(with pics)
Post Date: 2010-05-25 13:07:41 by freepatriot32
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Venus Williams is already making headlines at the French Open — and not just for her play. Venus Williams' French Open outfit yielded some interesting moments. Michel Spingler In a city known for fashion, the elder Williams sister took the court in Paris Sunday for her opening-round match wearing a lacy black "Can-Can'' corset with spaghetti straps and red trim that created plenty of buzz. As Williams ran and jumped her way around the court, the fancy get-up — designed to give the illusion of being see-through — was prone to several revealing moments. Williams, who designed the outfit herself, drew whistles from the Paris crowd. The attire certainly ...
Dirty Little Secrets?
Post Date: 2010-05-24 13:52:00 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Dirty Little Secrets? By Nick Athan Posted May 19, 2010 When ESPN The Magazine comes out next week, the Kansas City Chiefs are going to be in the middle of some very unwanted publicity. The NFL has always been a league run by the good ol’ boy network at the ownership level and the coaching fraternity. On the players’ side, the veterans rule the show in the locker room and off the field. Rookies like wide receiver Dwayne Bowe, who came into the NFL in 2007, are supposed to follow the lead and code of their elders. They are supposed to keep some of the dirty little secrets that have been passed on from generation to generation by the men who set the stage for players like Bowe ...
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