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Well, say what you will Graystone, I think it's a great idea, and a long time coming. I think other fish should get their own day as well, allow folks to share recipes and promote the healthy aspects of consuming fish. About time we have a World Halibut Day.
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5. Another famous fan? President Obama. He told T.V. Guide in 2007 that his favorite cartoon character is ”SpongeBob SquarePants, because SpongeBob is the show I watch with my daughters.” Hillenburg was shocked and please to hear that, telling the Washington Post, "That leaves me kind of speechless. There have been some administrations I wouldn’t have been happy to hear that from."

”I do think that the attitude of the show is about tolerance. Everybody is different, and the show embraces that,” he says. ”No one is shut out.”


Ah, yes ... tolerance.
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Sure thing, Jack C. I guess the continuation of rape rooms and of sending your opponents feet first through industrial plastic shredders would be a small price to pay for kids programming.
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OK, it's a neat illusion, but I don't think it has much to do with explaining a curve ball. Pitching in general is the art of making the ball appear to do something it's not. A rising fastball, for instance, doesn't really rise -- all pitches drop due to gravity (with the exception of those submarine throwing goofballs I suppose). A rising fastball appears to do that since it's thrown with 4 seams (to give it some compenstating lift) and harder than all other pitches (so it gets to the batter faster). Since it gets there quicker, if appears to rise (only because it didn't fall as much as expected).

A curve ball moves in a direction counter to what the batter expects, and will make use of gravity to have it moves farther than it otherwise would (if it was only the spin of the pitch causing the change in direction).
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The politician. On the surface, he's a big swaggering warlord... but it only takes a glance to realize he's really just a conniving weasel....

yep, that's our Barack.
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Jenny, Noelegy, Thrbus -- Idiots, all

The majority of earth's surface looks as Manhatten did 400 years ago. Go find yourself a chuck of it and live out your lives if you find it so great. Leave the laptop behind, of course. No sense in clutting up the place with the trappings on modern life.
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Elagie - The greatest mass murders (read: stomach-turning viciousness) of all time were Stalin, Mao, and Hitler. Hardly religious zealots there. You've made your hatred of those that actually attend church plain, so there's probably little to expect from you in terms of intellectual honesty on the subject at hand. No time for that either, I assume.
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That great protector of the oceans, none other than Ted Danson said we have only 10 years before the oceans will be dead due to our carelessness. So I'm not sure singling out the tuna is the best way to approach this problem.

Then again, Danson made that statement in 1988.
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That’s why I said “most”. There have been bigger extinctions, but on a timeline of the earth’s history they take up a small space.

Ok, I'll bite -- why are extinctions somehow more prevalent now? Is there some scientific study you can point to? Considering how little we know now about what species inhabit the planet, any measurement of the number going extinct is nonsense. And the idea that we have any feel at all for the rate at which this occurred over the entire history of the earth is also complete drivel, moreso in fact.

Now I realize it's there's a human tendency to think the era in which we live is singularly special. Add to that the guilt and arrogance of thinking every bad thing that happens is somehow our fault and you end up with silly statements like yours. I'm sure a great many folks would nod their dopey little heads in agreement. But species have been evolving and dying off for billions of years. Humans, like every other living thing, have an effect on the survivability of other species on the planet, both positively and negatively. And the number of species we have a direct impact toward is tiny compared to the diverse fauna of earth (again, a number we still have no idea how to measure).
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